Journalism

Journalism is my first love, whether it’s profiles, issue-based features, opinion pieces or travel stories. I enjoy working to deadlines for magazines, websites and newsletters. Editors say I am fast, accurate, incisive, and a good story generator. My curiosity thrives on following unusual leads and telling new stories.

SELECTED WORKS

Society

Sharing the Care

Society — Guardian Australia

October 21, 2024

I thought when my mother went into aged care my daily work would be over. I was wrong...

An Ailing Hospital

Illawarra Flame — Society

October 14, 2024

Wollongong is a regional hub and a teaching hospital, but are its standards meeting community expectations?

Merci Mission

Good Weekend — Society

October 12, 2024

How to convince your French mother to appreciate the art of gratitude? With difficulty - and then, self-reflection.

Dehydration

Society — Guardian Australia

December 9, 2023

‘You are sweating half a litre an hour’: what happens to your body when dehydrated – and how to avoid it. As Australia stares down a predicted very hot summer, dehydration presents a serious …

Therapy

Society — Sydney Morning Herald

August 27, 2023

Breaking up with my therapist terrified me. In the end, it was perfect. After eight years, it was time to say goodbye. My therapist gave me six months’ notice that she was breaking up …

Justin Yerbury

Society — Guardian Australia

June 27, 2023

‘I wish I could be her hero’: the teenage sweethearts who face motor neurone disease together. When Justin and Rachel Yerbury met, they had no idea that he would become a world-leading scientist – …

Ageing and Eating

Society — Griffith Review

March 8, 2022

Like falling over, choking in public is always a little embarrassing. When it happens, people feel the need to apologise once the episode is over, as if it were a sign of weakness or …

The Refugee Bakery Scheme

Society — Guardian Australia

September 8, 2021

‘The bakery is like a family to me’: the asylum seekers and refugees building a new life on sourdough starter. For the trainees of the Bread and Butter project, learning to bake is the …

Japanese Toilets

Society — Guardian Australia

April 20, 2020

Royal flush: how toilet paper shortages fuelled an interest in high-end 'smart toilets'. Though they’ve been big in Japan for decades, Covid-19 has accelerated Australians’ curiosity about ‘alternative toileting devices’.

Designing A Home For My Mother

Society — Guardian Australia

March 7, 2020

Gran designs: could building my mother an upstairs flat renovate our relationship? Friends thought we were mad and tried to dissuade us. Despite misgivings, we went ahead.

Storage Facilities

Society — Guardian Australia

December 17, 2018

Our lock-and-leave culture: the rise of self-storage and clinging to stuff we hardly use. Moving, downsizing, long-term renovations, deceased estates and divorce are all factors in the relentlessly increasing demand for off-site storage.

Culture

River Queen – Di Morrissey profile

Sunday Life — Culture

December 15, 2024

Author Di Morrissey is renowned for her romance novels, yet she remains refreshingly grounded.

Barefoot Boho Queen – Gina Chick profile

Illawarra Flame — Culture

November 24, 2024

Even people who did not watch Alone Australia on SBS know Gina Chick – she’s become one of those rare figures who transcends the television show that propelled her into the public sphere. That’s …

A New Book About Kindertransport

Culture — Plus 61J Media

January 26, 2024

Book review: The Kindertransport – What Really Happened, by Andrea Hammel. A robust correction of the Kindertransport legend. This book gets to the truth of a poignant project afflicted by bureaucratic prejudice and by …

Film: One Life

Culture — Plus 61J Media

December 17, 2023

The quiet Englishman whose wartime heroics lay unrecognised for 50 years. Few knew that Nicholas Winton saved the lives of so many Jewish children during the war. It’s hard not to tear up during …

Bluebeard

Culture — Sydney Morning Herald

February 26, 2021

Anyone who thinks fairytales are for children clearly has not read Charles Perrault’s Bluebeard. The bloody, cautionary tale about the perils of curiosity and marriage belongs in the X-rated horror genre more than on …

Yo-Yo Ma

Culture — Sydney Morning Herald

December 11, 2020

Awkward moment leads to 40-year friendship – and a new album from Yo-Yo Ma. Anyone who knows Yo-Yo Ma could tell you that a virus was not going to stop him in his tracks. …

Lynette Wallworth

Culture — Sydney Morning Herald

August 6, 2020

Is Lynette Wallworth our most influential filmmaker? There is a gentle irony to the fact that film director Lynette Wallworth would rather not talk via Zoom. Instead, we conduct this conversation by phone.

Lime Cordiale

Culture — Sydney Morning Herald

July 10, 2020

'We said yes to everything': Lime Cordiale's slow rise to top. When the mop-haired sons of friends blossom into musical adolescents and form a band, you wish them luck, expecting them to go the …

Caroline Baum
caro@carolinebaum.com.au

Representation

Website justinepowelldesign

Books
Jane Novak at Jane Novak Literary Agency
+61 2 9281 8648
jane@janenovak.com

Books:
Jane Novak at Jane Novak Literary Agency
+61 2 9281 8648
jane@janenovak.com

Speaking | Facilitation
Saxtons
saxton.com.au
+61 2 8698 6650

Speaking | Facilitation:
Saxtons
saxton.com.au
+61 2 8698 6650

I live and work on Dharawal country and pay my respects to the traditional owners of this land, and to elders past, present and emerging.