Highlights

About Me

Petra Stock is a climate and environment reporter at Guardian Australia.

She also specialises in science, technology and education reporting.

Her stories have been published in the Guardian, Cosmos Magazine, The Age, Crikey, Australian Geographic, Archer, RenewEconomy, The Mandarin and The Citizen.

Petra recently won the Alicia Camphuisen Best New Journalist award at the 2024 Samsung Australia IT Journalism Awards ('the Lizzies').

She was also Melbourne Press Club's Student Journalist of the Year for 2021 and the 2022 Schiavon Cadet at the Centre for Advancing Journalism.

Her portfolio includes news, magazine and online features, explainers, investigations and podcasts. She has extensive experience using Freedom of Information processes and a track record of published FoI stories.

Petra brings to journalism two decades of professional experience working in climate change solutions, renewable energy development, environmental impact assessments and Aboriginal heritage policy.

She has a Master of Journalism (2022) and a Bachelor of Engineering (Environmental) with honours (2002).

Investigations and FoI

Climate change and environment

Animal ethics

Technology

Education, engineering and STEM

Explainers