Rick Wilkinson Author

Rick Wilkinson is an award-winning Australian geologist turned journalist/author who has covered the energy resources industry for international magazines and newspapers from London and Melbourne for the past 50 years. Wilkinson has 16 published books, nine depicting the history of Australia's petroleum and resources industries. Five other books (non-fiction and fiction) were written for children. He has also written a natural history book about the critically endangered Lord Howe Island stick insect and a travel/history book about the Bellarine Peninsula where he lives southwest of Melbourne in Victoria.