MPavilion Opening November 2020

Jewel Topsfield

Jewel Topsfield is the Melbourne editor at The Age, reporting on issues including urban affairs, planning, population growth and policy reform. She was formerly the national correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. From 2015 to 2018 she was the Indonesia correspondent for both mastheads, based in Jakarta.

Jewel has won multiple awards, including a Walkley for international journalism and the $20,000 Lowy Institute Media Award, which recognises journalists who have deepened and enriched the discussion of global issues in Australia. Other roles include five years as the education editor of The Age and a three-year stint in the Canberra Press Gallery covering immigration, the environment and education.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.