Jo Chandler is a senior writer with the Age. She reports primarily on climate change, human rights and development, indigenous issues, social affairs, and medical and science news. In 2005, after more than a decade in editing roles, she went back on the road as a reporter, and since then has filed news and features from assignments across sub-Saharan Africa, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Antarctica and Afghanistan. In 2009 she won a Walkley Award for analysis and commentary.