Richard Moore is an Australian journalist with 32 years' experience in the profession, mainly on daily broadsheet newspapers and the Internet.

Go Cats! Well done the boys at Geelong for our two Australian Rules Football flags in 45 years. Carn the Catters!

He has worked in Australia, New Zealand and England on news organisations such as The Melbourne Age, the BBC World Service, the Daily Telegraph (London), the New Zealand Herald, Radio Australia and various British regional papers.

In 1987 Richard Moore spent a month in Belfast shooting a photo essay on The Troubles, surviving a hand-grenade attack, and in 1989 covered the fall of the Berlin Wall.

His first foray into web development was a computer game site called Gameblitz, he then built the Web Wombat search portal and was editor of it for five years. Web Wombat now gets more than 800,000 visitors a month.

At the same time Richard Moore created The Napoleonic Guide - a 2500-page reference website on the Napoleonic Era. Built for teachers, students and history buffs The Napoleonic Guide gets more than 180,000 visitors a month.

In 2004, Richard Moore built TikiTouring.co.nz and it is now a major tourism website for people travelling to - or around - New Zealand.

He is currently working from a beach in New Zealand as a writer, editor, photographer and newspaper columnist.

In addition he is still trying to finish a novel on the Napoleonic Wars. The factional work follows the campaigns of the Worcestershire Regiment during the Peninsular War in Portugal and Spain and he promises it will be ready by ... when it is finished.

Richard Moore has also opened up the game shop BattleZone in Tauranga.

He is a mad keen Geelong football club supporter and is in heaven with our recent two premiership flags!!!!!!!!!!

In 2008 he almost ended up in heaven through a rather inconvenient heart attack, during which he drove himself to hospital for treatment.

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