About us
Billo Consulting takes its name from Biluun — the stingray — in the Gathang and Dhangatti languages of Jack’s home Country. It is also the name his great-grandfather was known by at certain times and in certain places, and the name his great-uncle went by throughout his life.
The stingray carries a formidable barbed spine in its tail. To us, it resembles a mighty quill, inscribing honour and truth. At Billo Consulting, we channel this ancestral strength into modern storytelling.
Jack helps writers and publishers achieve cultural competence in their representations of our communities and heritage.
Isabelle helps organisations in social justice and non-profit sectors reach their full potential.
Jack Latimore (Birpai–Thungutti), Director, Billo Consulting
Jack is a writer and journalist based in Melbourne. He is the current Enterprise Fellow for the First Nations Journalism Scholarship Project at the University of Melbourne.
Between 2021 and 2024, Latimore served as the first Aboriginal journalist assigned to the Indigenous Affairs round in the 170-year history of The Age newspaper.
Before joining The Age, he held a range of editorial and reporting roles across Australian media, including Digital Managing Editor at National Indigenous Television (NITV), columnist for Guardian Australia, correspondent for the Aboriginal community newspaper Koori Mail, and daily editor at IndigenousX.
His journalism and essays have appeared widely in Australian and international publications, including GQ, Rolling Stone Australia, NME, Meanjin, Inside Story, Griffith Review, Overland, Crikey, SBS, ABC, Guardian Weekly, the World Health Organization, and Reconciliation Australia, among others.
Latimore worked closely with Eddie Betts on the bestselling memoir, The Boy from Boomerang Crescent (Simon & Schuster Australia, 2022), where he is credited with providing the book’s cultural edit.
In 2024, Scribner Australia signed Latimore to write a book examining the fatal 2019 police shooting of Warlpiri teenager Kumanjayi Walker in Yuendumu, the criminal trial of Zachary Rolfe, and the subsequent coronial inquest. The book is scheduled for publication in early 2027.
His work has also appeared in numerous anthologies, including Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, Dear Son, This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction, Best Australian Stories 2016, Best Summer Stories, and Paradise to Paranoia.
Latimore created and produced the Take It Blak podcast for NITV and has worked on several projects aimed at strengthening Indigenous participation and representation in Australian journalism.
In 2016, he received the inaugural John Newfong Prize from the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia for reporting on Indigenous affairs. The same year he became the first Aboriginal journalist shortlisted for a Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards as a finalist for the Keith Dunstan Quill for Commentary.
Isabelle Oderberg, Lead Partner, Billo Consulting
Isy is a journalist, communications strategist, activist, policy advisor, author, executive and crisis manager.
After completing a degree in journalism and working in the technology trade press, Isy headed to London where she worked in the financial trade press, as well as at Reuters and Dow Jones Newswires. She returned to Australia in 2006 to work at Australian Associated Press as lead mining writer, before becoming founding news editor at Business Spectator, where she was later interviews editor and China commentator.
She then moved to the Herald Sun, becoming the country’s first social media editor, before being elevated to become national social media editor for News Corp in Australia.
Isy then transitioned into the not-for-profit sector as social media lead for Australian Red Cross, before working in a variety communications and media relations roles, leveraging her long history of volunteer work in the space and her experience in communications and storytelling.
She continues to work as a freelance journalist, in communications and media advisory and in 2023 published her first book, Hard to Bear: Investigating the science and silence of miscarriage.
She is the Co-Founder and Chair of the Early Pregnancy Loss Coalition, which in 2024 secured the first ever dedicated funding for the miscarriage sector in a Federal Budget.
She has written for Meanjin, The Guardian, ArtsHub, Beat Magazine, The Age & SMH and more.
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