Stewart Bell lives for Formula 1. Unbridled enthusiasm opens doors and Stewart’s articles have been adorned with exclusive quotes from interviews with Formula 1’s greatest stars - including Michael Schumacher, David Coulthard, Robert Kubica, as well as the ringleader himself, Bernie Ecclestone. Stewart has written features, reports and copy for a variety of clients, including Shell Australia, Australasian Motorsport News Magazine, Melbourne’s uber-popular mX daily, and other News Limited publications.

Joanna Hall is a freelance travel, lifestyle health and beauty writer based in Sydney, and publisher and co-editor of the new online luxury travel magazine, Ultimate Travel. Hailing originally from Ireland, she grew up in London, and now happily calls Australia home. Joanna travels with her Australian husband Ben, also an experienced journalist and photographer, and the pair spend a lot of time on the road seeking new luxury travel experiences.

John Lander has been based near Tokyo for 25 years. A “reformed academic” as he calls himself, John hails from San Francisco but considers Asia his home. A world traveller by nature, he has turned travel into his profession, photographing the exotic as well as the sublime. When he is not travelling and photographing the world, he camps out in his beach house near Kamakura, Japan and writes travel essays with the occasional swim.

Margret Meagher has been reporting on the arts in Australia and overseas for over 20 years, both as a publisher and a writer. In 1991, she founded State of the Arts magazine and in 1994 established the State of the Arts website (www.stateart.com.au), which has since become one of the most popular arts and entertainment websites online.

During her 18-year career, award-winning journalist Kylie Miller has worked in senior writing and editing roles for major daily newspapers in Australia and overseas. She won the prestigious NSW Young Journalist of the Year award in 1994, which included a month-long placement at The Straits Times in Singapore. Kylie worked for eight years at The Age, Melbourne, including six years as a television columnist, feature writer and deputy editor of the Green Guide. She is currently collaborating on a collection of children’s stories with her mother, Michele.0 Kylie regularly contributes articles to the Herald Sun in Melbourne, where she also works as a sub-editor.

Craig Tansley is a freelance travel journalist based in both Sydney and Melbourne. He’s been on the road for six and a half years and has been a regular contributor for everyone from The Sunday Times in London to Action Asia in Hong Kong to The Sunday Telegraph and The Age in Australia. He’s surfed with Coldplay, Ben Harper and Groove Armada for FHM, been tackled by a 120 kilogram Wallaby prop forward at the Rugby Sevens in NZ for Inside Sport, dressed in a skirt and a kilt in Sydney’s CBD for New Woman and been robbed at gunpoint on a travel story in Rio. He spends six months a year on the road fi ling travel stories.