Ella has written for national publications including The Good Weekend Magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. As a full-time journalist for Sydney Morning Herald, she published innumerable articles for the platform. Her published work includes feature articles, news reportage, arts, travel and photography writing.
See a small selection of articles below.
Escaping the waves: A Fijian village relocates
In Fiji, Ella Rubeli visits ones of the first villages in the world to relocate inland because of climate change.
Cool Threads: the dandies of Doonside
Even in a continent notable for sartorial flamboyance, the Sapeurs of the Congo stand out for their colourful style. Now they’re bringing it to the suburbs of Sydney.
Busy bodies: meet the Australians still working in their 80s
A rising retirement age? Such change is of no concern to these energetic 80-somethings, who remain as work-focused as ever.
Flood displaced residents of Dungog still awaiting permanent housing
Leonard Arnold woke with his face inches from his bedroom ceiling on the morning of April 21 — his plastic mattress had floated up on the floodwaters that swamped the NSW town of Dungog after a ferocious storm.
From World War II to the Archibald: landscape master Guy Warren going strong at 94
Guy Warren denies being Australia’s oldest working and exhibiting artist, but he’s willing to concede that he may be our best looking. Ella Rubeli visits his studio.
Taxi Stories: Meet the teetotal cabbie who mixes with drug dealers, drunks and prostitutes
From behind the wheel of a taxi, you see the city in a way that no one else can. In a series of vignette films by Ella Rubeli, taxi drivers reveal the secrets of Sydney.
Sailing from Turkey to Greece on the Aegean Sea: A new spectacular view
Travel reporting for Sydney Morning Herald from a yacht on the Agean.
The Afghan generations raised behind the barrel of the AK-47
In 2001, when the world turned its eyes to Afghanistan and journalists began to flock to the war-ravaged nation, Australian photojournalist Stephen Dupont had already been documenting its plight for nearly a decade.
Burnout: Photographing Australian muscle car culture
Custom car culture: Photographer Simon Davidson took one whiff and was enchanted by the unity of man and machine.