Jewel Topsfield
Social Affairs Editor
Jewel Topsfield is social affairs editor at The Age. She has worked in Melbourne, Canberra and Jakarta as Indonesia correspondent. She has won multiple awards including a Walkley and the Lowy Institute Media Award.
Push to reuse graves as cemeteries run out of room
European countries and some Australian states have been recycling graves for years. But in Victoria, they last forever, despite some cemeteries running out of space.
- by Jewel Topsfield
As it happened: Albanese admits domestic violence a national crisis; Biden and Netanyahu speak as pressure grows on Israel
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese admits domestic violence is a national crisis, while US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak as pressure grows on Israel over Rafah invasion and cease-fire talks.
- by Josefine Ganko and Jewel Topsfield
‘People are still going to be dying in alleyways’: The lost battle for a second safe injecting room
Saade Melki says the safe injecting room in Richmond stopped him from overdosing. He is shocked that plans to build another one in the city have been abandoned.
- by Jewel Topsfield
Updated
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israel-Iran strikes, as it happened: Explosions in Iran amid heightened tensions in Middle East
Israeli missiles have hit a site in Iran, the American ABC News reported on Friday citing a US official. Follow our live coverage.
- by Jewel Topsfield and Chris Zappone
Les Twentyman wrote his own eulogy. These are his parting words
The Victorian premier told mourners at Twentyman’s state funeral that the eulogy was typical of a man who always “downplayed the enormous difference he made”.
- by Jewel Topsfield
‘I felt I had to be manic to produce things’: The comedian taking you inside the bipolar mind
Comedian Sam Kissajukian produced 300 paintings documenting his mind during a five-month manic episode in lockdown. Now he uses his art to talk about life with a complex mental illness.
- by Jewel Topsfield
Melbourne school charged over ‘preventable’ death of student
Lachlan Cook, 16, died after becoming ill from a complication of diabetes while on a school trip in Vietnam.
- by Alex Crowe and Jewel Topsfield
Series
City life
Where we live: The changing face of Victoria’s neighbourhoods
In this series, The Age profiles Victorian suburbs and towns to reveal how they’ve changed over the decades.
‘My soul will flash back to The Junction’: The suburb where residents fight for their leafy idyll
For decades Camberwell residents have risen up to defend their suburban calm from developers.
- by Jewel Topsfield
A siren blares emergency, emergency – then eerie silence
Arriving at the Mount Clear gold mine on Wednesday, Ross Kenna was confronted with a chaotic scene. Trapped workers, emergency services and everyone fearing the worst.
- by Jewel Topsfield