Inside Retail: How Bush Medijina runs a skincare business from five shipping containers.

Features writer. Journalist. Collector of stories and interesting people.

Areas of expertise

Consumer goods · Supermarket competition · AI and data privacy · Sustainability · Garment worker rights · Ethical fashion · Social enterprise · Tariffs and global trade · Small business · Australian manufacturing · Consumer pricing · Supply chains · Food security · Financial year results

About me

I'm Tahlia, a journalist and features writer living in Sydney, Australia.

I currently lead Inside FMCG’s print magazine and writes for Inside Retail PRO. I’m enthused by winemakers, small businesses, sustainability, and food brands that make wonderful things. My job is to persuade the rest of us to learn about them.

Before journalism, I studied fine art at the National Art School, then art history, followed by writing and literature at Deakin University. When I’m not interviewing founders, chief executives, farmers or assorted interesting strangers, I’m usually pottering in my garden, booking tickets to a play or opera with my mother and looking for where I might next acquire a very good glass of wine.

Rowena Bird, co-founder of Lush

Leading figures I've interviewed

Bernie Brookes AM · Rowena Bird · Simon Griffiths · Nicole Battistessa · Chuck Hahn · Jonathan Waecker · Pippa Hallas · Michael Perich · Alexia Horley · Ed Carr · Robert Priest

‘No fat in the system’: Why dairy is under strain