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Category Archives: Australia
The Gallery Method: Jonathan Swan and the Craft of Insider Reporting
Jonathan Swan is an Australian journalist who arrived in Washington as a visiting fellow and became a United States citizen. He built his reputation on the oldest tools of the trade: source cultivation, verification, and speed. His career shows how … Continue reading
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After the Kings: Ben Fordham and the Remaking of 2GB Breakfast
Ben Fordham (b. 1976) hosts the breakfast program on Sydney radio station 2GB, the most consequential talkback slot in Australian broadcasting. The chair he occupies once belonged to Alan Jones (b. 1941), and before the station consolidations of the early … Continue reading
The Entertainer’s Exemption: John Laws and the Price of Trust
John Laws (1935-2025) dominated Australian commercial talkback radio for longer than any broadcaster in the nation’s history. Across seventy-one years on air, he turned a format built on listener telephone calls into an instrument of political access, commercial persuasion, and … Continue reading
What the Record Shows: David Marr and the Uses of Evidence
Across more than five decades, David Ewan Marr (b. 1947) has worked as an investigative reporter, newspaper editor, biographer, essayist, television presenter, and radio host. His subjects have included a Chief Justice of the High Court, a Nobel laureate in … Continue reading
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Peopling the Emptiness: The Life of Patrick White
Patrick White (1912-1990) stands as the central figure of twentieth-century Australian literature and the only Australian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Across twelve novels, eight plays, two collections of short fiction, and a memoir, he took a national … Continue reading
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Crossing Lines: Nick McKenzie and the Limits of Method
Nick McKenzie (b. 1976) is an Australian investigative journalist whose reporting has exposed corruption, criminal infiltration, foreign interference, military misconduct, and institutional failure at the highest levels of Australian society. Over more than two decades he has become a dominant … Continue reading
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Australian Investigative Journalist Chris Masters: The Man Who Saw In
Chris Masters (b. 1948) stands among the small number of Australian journalists whose work changed the institutions he covered. Across six decades he exposed corruption in police forces, courts, parliaments, and the military, and his reporting triggered royal commissions, criminal … Continue reading
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Linton Besser: A Reporter and the Paper Trail
Linton Besser (b. 1976) is an Australian investigative journalist, foreign correspondent, and media critic. He reports on corruption, regulatory failure, corporate misconduct, and the conduct of public institutions. Across newspapers, television, radio, and documentary film he has built a body … Continue reading
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Gerald Stone and the Making of Australian Current Affairs
Gerald Louis Stone (1933-2020) reshapes Australian broadcast journalism across the final quarter of the twentieth century. As founding executive producer of the Australian edition of 60 Minutes, he builds a model of television current affairs that joins investigative reporting, international … Continue reading
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Paul Barry: A Chronicler of Australian Power
Paul Barry (b. 1952) is an Australian journalist, author, and broadcaster who built a career on the investigation of wealth, power, and institutional accountability. Across more than four decades he became a leading practitioner of investigative reporting in Australia. His … Continue reading
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