A freelance foreign correspondent, magazine writer and lecturer, Doug Hendrie’s interest is in the unusual – subcultures, personalities, histories. He’s reported on everything from Gold Coast sex surrogates to the Cave Clan urban explorers of Melbourne, and was the principle researcher for Jacqueline Kent’s biography of Julia Gillard. His work has been published in the Christian Science Monitor (US), Edge magazine, The Diplomat, The Australian, The Age, the Griffith Review, ABC’s The Drum, Sunday Life and more.