Life As We Knew It

Aisha Dow (Author)

Aisha Dow is a multi-award-winning journalist and health editor based at The Age newspaper. She reported on the coronavirus pandemic for more than three years, through six lockdowns in Melbourne. Her investigations exposing the collapse of Victoria’s triple-zero system with her colleague Nick McKenzie has won a Walkley award. She previously worked on the city beat, uncovering a crisis of faulty, dangerous and leaking buildings. She is a former Melbourne Press Club Young Journalist of the Year.

Melissa Cunningham (Author)

Melissa Cunningham is a multi-award-winning journalist based at The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Australia. She covered the coronavirus pandemic for more than three years as The Age’s health reporter through six lockdowns and many outbreaks. Her news-breaking and investigative skills have been recognised by the Melbourne Press Club, which has awarded her two Quill awards for excellence in journalism. She was awarded for her extensive reporting on clergy and institutional sexual abuse in 2017 and won the best news story of the year in 2021 for a scoop exposing the failures of Victoria’s hotel quarantine program. She has twice been a finalist in the Australian Walkley Awards. Cunningham loves telling people’s stories and values public interest journalism and its role in changing lives. She has a particular interest in health, social affairs and criminal justice reporting.