Lyndal Rowlands

Lyndal Rowlands is an award-winning journalist from Melbourne, Australia. She is currently a senior producer for Al Jazeera English and contributor to the investigative true crime climate change podcast Drilled. She was previously a producer for ABC Radio National, including for Life Matters, a program that regularly features interviews with authors about their books and a reporter for the Audible Originals series First Eat with Nakkiah Lui, which received a highly commended from the Association for International Broadcasting and Best Factual Podcast at the Australian Podcast Awards. Before that, she was a UN correspondent in New York for Inter Press Service from 2014 to 2017, for which she received the UN Correspondents Association Prize for reporting on climate change. Her journalism can also be found in The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, SBS and others. She was part of Al Jazeera English reporting team that won Edward R Murrow Awards for breaking news in 2024 and 2025. In addition to journalism she has also worked as an advocate for human rights organisations at the United Nations in New York, with her research featured in official UN reports and by media including NPR, Al Jazeera, The Guardian and Buzzfeed. Lyndal was born in a valley full of open-cut brown coal mines in South-Eastern Australia and later moved to Geelong, where she attended an evangelical church as a teenager. Her favourite sound is a magpie warbling.