Paul Barry: ‘People should not be off limits’

Journalist, author and former Media Watch host Paul Barry at La Perouse in Sydney. His latest book is The Big Steal. Photograph: Liz Ham/The Guardian

It’s a hot and hazy morning in Sydney’s La Perouse. The surrounding water of Botany Bay is a vast cloak of blue wrapping the headland where journalist Paul Barry meets me for a hike through Kamay Botany Bay national park.

He has chosen the Henry Head walking track as our stomping ground. “It’s a very restful place,” he says. “You can often see whales breaching.”