The Crikey Magazine was officially launched in March 2007. A small team of two started preparing the magazine just two months before the release date. Issue one of the Crikey Magazine started as a 56-page publication. Now, one year on, the magazine has grown to an action-packed 100 page glossy colorful family magazine. We currently print 22,000 copies of the magazine to distribute throughout newsagents nationally, and international to subscribers.

Australia Zoo CRIKEY! Magazine was created to feed the need for fun wildlife education and spread the conservation message. Steve Irwin lived for conservation, making it his mission to show people all around the world how they can make a difference. Readers learn about the animal kingdom and how to protect the world they live in.

The content of the quarterly magazine is wide-ranging, with articles on conservation and environmental issues to fashion features, interactive kids' pages and up-to-date information on the Irwin family.

Just a few popular features of the CRIKEY! Magazine are:

• Irwin Adventures - written by Terri herself with stacks of exclusive photos and information about their family adventures at Australia Zoo and all over the world.
• Bits by Bindi is Bindi's own hand-written bit. She writes about her family, friends, animals, filming, singing and dancing her way through life as a Wildlife Warrior princess.
• Robert RULES! takes a look inside the life of the littlest Irwin. It's such fun to step into his four-year-old world where lizards, mud, dinosaurs and fun are top of the list!
• Wild Child is the kids' chance to get involved with our interactive activity page. Weird and wonderful facts, jokes, activities and cool competitions feature prominently on these pages. There are plenty of activities for the kids like colouring-ins, puzzles, recipes and quizzes.
• Nick's Wild Science Class is written by our very own Education Officer at Australia Zoo. His fascinating articles get right into the nitty-gritty scientific parts of the wild world, in a fun and entertaining way. Kids will love learning with Nick!
• Star Patient features a different patient of the Australian Wildlife Hospital each issue. The brave critters that find themselves sick or injured are in the best possible hands with our wildlife vets. Come on their journey from rescue, to treatment to rehabilitation and release back into the wild.

Louise Gee

Managing Editor

Louise brings 20 years of experience in newspapers and magazines to the crack CRIKEY! Magazine team. When Louise isn't crocheting a blanket of words and concepts to form what is CRIKEY! Magazine she keeps an eye out for the resident snakes, frogmouths, toads, kookaburras, herons, scrub turkeys, possums, Eastern Water Dragons and Pheasant Coucals in her 'jungle' backyard. No, she doesn't live in the Zoo but sometimes her home feels like one as she also has to wrangle three wonderful kids of her own. Louise reckons they help her tune into what young readers want in the magazine as she tries to remain abreast of issues and stories that will interest mums, dads and senior readers too.

When she's not working, she enjoys swimming, being 'walked by' her head-strong beagle, Cooee, and live music. After a childhood fearful of snakes and creepy crawlies, being a mum has helped her to shake old phobias and embrace all creatures great and small. Her pick of the bunch at the zoo are the binturongs, Pip and Jaya. A lover of good movies, Louise admits the binturongs' natural scent, akin to popcorn, makes her rather biased towards these tree-dwellers.

Katherine Hagenbach

Magazine Designer

Katherine, or 'Kat' as we like to call her, is our resident expert on the fascinating subject of How to Take Lots of Words and Pictures and Put Them Onto the Pages of a Magazine in a Way That Makes Them Very Attractive and Fun to Look At.

Or for short, she is our HTTLOWAPAPTOTPOAMIAWTMTVAAFTLA expert.

Kat has been a Zoo Crew member since 2003, and in that time she's taken LOADS of awesome photos as part of our Photography Department, and designed HEAPS of amazing signs, brochures, billboards, buses and adverts for the Graphic Design Department, before joining the slightly off-kilter CRIKEY! Magazine team as our designer and artistic wonder.

Kat enjoys doing fancy arty things, going to football games, kickboxing and watching funny cat videos on YouTube. Her favourite Zoo animals are our beautiful Red Pandas.