Catie McLeod is a journalist at Guardian Australia, based in Melbourne. She reports on news from across Australia, including health, science and stories from regional and rural communities.

In 2026 she became the first journalist allowed inside the Southern Cryonics facility in Holbrook, New South Wales, since its first suspension in 2024. Her report looked at the people who pay more than A$200,000 to have their bodies frozen in liquid nitrogen after death in the hope of being revived in the future, the operators who run the southern hemisphere's only cryonics facility, and the scientists who doubt that revival will ever be possible.