Philippa has recently joined the Life & Leisure team as Deputy Editor. Prior to this Philippa was the Deputy Editor of AFR Magazine and Fin! Magazine.

Fiona has written and edited travel for The Australian Financial Review since 2012 and is a respected commentator on the Australian tourism industry. Prior to this, Fiona’s editorial experience spans across Traveller (The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age), and as editor of Sunday Life, published in The Sun-Herald.

Lauren Sams is the fashion editor at The Australian Financial Review, where she writes for the newspaper, the weekly supplement Life & Leisure and a monthly column for The Australian Financial Review Magazine. She is the editor of Spend.

Tony is a Sydney based journalist and author. He has worked in book publishing and filled a variety of editorial roles at the Sydney Morning Herald including back page columnist, features editor and chief of staff. He is currently the Motoring Editor for the AFR. He also writes profiles, travel and technology stories.

Max is the only Australian writer to have won the prestigious international André Simon Award for best drinks writing twice – once in 1999 for his first book, Red and White: Wine Made Simple, and again in 2020 for his most recent book, Intoxicating: Ten Drinks that Shaped Australia. He writes regular columns for Life & Leisure, The Australian Financial Review Magazine and Fin Magazine.

Over his career, John Davidson has been a humourist, foreign correspondent, investigative reporter, technology reporter and software coder. He now brings all those skills to bear reviewing gadgets every week. It’s demanding work, but someone has to do it.

The author of 16 cookbooks, Jill was the cookery editor of The Times in London for seven years, and winner of the British Cookery Journalist of the Year Award.  She now writes for Life & Leisure, authoring its popular Chef on Chef interview series, The Australian Financial Review Magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald and Good Weekend. A former editor of the Good Food Guide, she also pens a weekly newsletter called Jill Dupleix Eats.

Bani has been described as “the most widely recognised watch authority in Australia”. As watch editor of The Australian Financial Review, covers all things horological for AFR Magazine and Life & Leisure. A former creative director (McCann, Grey) and founder of an award-winning advertising agency (McSpedden Carey) with author Peter Carey, he is an academy member of the Grand Prix D’Horlogerie de Geneve, watchmaking’s Oscars.

After a distinguished editorial career in Paris, Stephen writes on art, architecture and design for Life & Leisure and The Australian Financial Review Magazine. He is the creative director of Sydney Design Week and advises several cultural institutions, including the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.