Peter is a Melbourne-based freelance journalist and senior writer with more than 25 years’ experience across newspapers, magazines and professional communications.

A significant part of his current work sits at the intersection of law and language. He writes judicial welcome speeches for the Victorian Bar — the formal addresses delivered in court to mark the appointment of new judges — and provides editorial services to Victorian Bar News, the Bar’s twice-yearly hardcopy and digital magazine. He has also recently begun writing for other legal professional bodies.

Photograph by Emma Byrnes

Alongside this, Peter continues to write features, news and profiles for a range of Australian publications. Recent work includes a feature for The Luxury Report on Laak Boorndap, the MCG-sized cultural garden being created for Melbourne’s Arts Precinct, with interviews including UK horticulturalist James Hitchmough (co-designer of London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park), and a profile of mountaineer Peter Hillary. He also contributes to The Rotunda, North Fitzroy’s community newspaper.

His byline has appeared in The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Sunday Age, Domain, Domain Review, RACV’s RoyalAuto, CPA Australia’s In The Black, Fairfax’s Epicure Good Food and Traveller, and airline magazines including Jetstar and Virgin’s Voyeur. Over the years he has interviewed subjects as varied as Senator Penny Wong, Doctor Who (the best one — Tom Baker), musician Vance Joy, actor Rachel Griffiths and Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud.

Peter got his start writing music reviews for Beat and Inpress magazines in the late 1990s. After a stint at children’s magazine Disney Adventures, he studied Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT University, which led to a cadetship with The Age. He worked for The Saturday Age entertainment section in 2003, continued freelancing in 2004, and in 2005 joined the(melbourne)magazine team as a staff writer, where he stayed until 2010 before returning to full-time freelancing.

Peter is a member of the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance. He also plays drums in Tarcutta, an instrumental three-piece — sample their music here or find out where they’re playing next here.