Australia's Surfing Life

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Surfing Life, formerly Australia’s Surfing Life, is a magazine about surfing published at the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.{{Cite web |title=Contact Us • Surfing Life |url=https://www.surfinglife.com.au/contact-us/ |access-date=2024-03-08 |website=Surfing Life |language=en-AU}}{{Citation | title=Australian surfing life | publication-date=1900 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/170518213 | access-date=8 March 2024}}

It was founded in 1985 by Peter Morrison{{cite book|author=Matt Warshaw|title=The Encyclopedia of Surfing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-DWQSYRx4MUC&pg=PA28|accessdate=19 May 2016|year=2005|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=0-15-603251-1|page=28}} In 2016 it was purchased by Morrison Media publisher and General Manager Craig Sims{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-DWQSYRx4MUC&q=The+Encyclopedia+of+Surfing%2F+craig+sims&pg=PA542 | title=The Encyclopedia of Surfing| isbn=0156032511| last1=Warshaw| first1=Matt| year=2005}} (former owner of Atoll Media, publisher of Zigzag), and his Morrison Media colleagues Graeme Murdoch and Rob Bain. In 2018 Craig Sims went on the hunt for a succession as he desired to reduce his load, he found Ray Bisschop (former creative director) who he believed would be able to drive the publication forward. The first issue of Surfing Life appeared in August 1985.