"From working at a remote roadhouse to helping run some of the country's most respected newsrooms, Corey Sinclair has built his career the long way round — by showing up, digging in, and learning from the places most people overlook."
He grew up in Newcastle and went through Hunter School of the Performing Arts — not the obvious start for a journalist, but it taught him to listen, to read people, and to step into someone else's world.
In 2012, a News Corp cadetship took him to Alice Springs. Young, openly gay, and a long way from home, he landed at the Centralian Advocate in the middle of one of the most complex communities in the country. What was meant to be a stepping stone became something more lasting.
Covering remote Indigenous affairs, land rights, and community safety, he learned the kind of journalism that can't be taught in a classroom — to sit in silence, to wait, to ask the question nobody else thought to ask.
From Alice Springs the career moved north to Darwin — the NT News and The Sunday Territorian — before a shift to the national desk at News Corp gave him a different kind of scale. Then came the Star Observer editorship: inheriting a 37-year-old institution at the most consequential moment in Australian LGBTIQ+ history.
Television followed. Prime7 through Black Summer and COVID. Then WIN News in Canberra, covering federal politics and regional life in equal measure.
Through all of it, the same instinct: find the story other people are walking past.
The Top End
Red Centre
Tamworth
Sydney
The Bush Capital