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She writes news and features with a particular focus on the United Nations, climate change and public health. Now based in Melbourne, Australia with Global News Insight, she previously worked as a producer at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio National, as a reporter for the investigative climate change podcast, Drilled, and served as UN Bureau Chief and Correspondent for Inter Press Service (IPS). Lyndal’s work has appeared on Audible Originals, and in the Guardian, the Diplomat and SBS, among others. She has been awarded the UN Correspondents Association prize for reporting on climate change and oceans and a UN Foundation Press Fellowship. In 2024 and 2025, she was part of the Global News Insight teams which won the Edward R Murrow Award for their breaking news coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza and the fall of Syria’s Assad. She was part of the team which was highly commended by the Association for International Broadcasting and won Best Factual Podcast at the Australian Podcast Awards for First Eat with Nakkiah Lui, a podcast about Indigenous food systems. The team which produced Damages, a podcast on the rights of nature, won a Covering Climate Now award for Best Audio in 2023.

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‘We don’t want to disappear’: Tuvalu fights for climate action and survival

FUNAFUTI, TUVALU - NOVEMBER 28: An aerial view of homes next to the Pacific Ocean on November 28, 2019 in Funafuti, Tuvalu. The low-lying South Pacific island nation of about 11,000 people has been classified as ‘extremely vulnerable’ to climate change by the United Nations Development Programme. The world’s fourth-smallest country is struggling to cope with climate change related impacts including five millimeter per year sea level rise (above the global average), tidal and wave driven flooding, storm surges, rising temperatures, saltwater intrusion and coastal erosion on its nine coral atolls and islands, the highest of which rises about 15 feet above sea level. In addition, the severity of cyclones and droughts in the Pacific Island region are forecast to increase due to global warming. Some scientists have predicted that Tuvalu could become inundated and uninhabitable in 50 to 100 years or less if sea level rise continues. The country is working toward a goal of 100 percent renewable power generation by 2025 in an effort to curb pollution and set an example for larger nations. Tuvalu is also exploring a plan to build an artificial island. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

US pressures Vanuatu at UN over ICJ’s landmark climate change ruling

Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu's minister for climate change, speaks surrounded by demonstrators as he arrives to the International Court of Justice ahead of an advisory opinion on what legal obligations nations have to address climate change and what consequences they may face if they don't, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

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Australian efforts on Islamophobia flag despite Christchurch wake-up call

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