Gregg Borschmann
Gregg Borschmann is one of Australia’s most experienced journalists, writers and oral historians specialising on the environment. Gregg left ABC Radio National in August 2020 after two decades as a producer/reporter and senior producer on RN Breakfast with Fran Kelly and Hamish Macdonald. He continues his work as a consultant oral history interviewer for the National Library of Australia.
Gregg started his career in print on The Age newspaper in Melbourne in 1974. In the 1980s he spent the best part of a decade reporting Australia ‘from the back blocks’ for The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Courier Mail and various specialist magazines. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, he worked as a media advisor in two Hawke Labor Governments.
Since the early 1990s, Gregg has recorded three major oral history collections for the National Library of Australia on Australia’s forests, environmental history and the Great Barrier Reef. He’s currently recording a fourth collection for the NLA on the koala, and also writing a book about koalas.
In 2003-04, Gregg and Penny travelled remote and regional Australia in a 4WD Land Rover called Wanda Linda with their three children, Charlie, Mollie and Oscar. It remains a formative experience for all of the family.