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Tuesday, August 3rd, 7:00-8:00 PM EDT (-4GMT)
BIO: Multi-award-winning investigative journalist with over three decades experience in newspapers and television, including reporting for The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, ABC TV Four Corners, Nine Network Sunday program and 60 Minutes. Currently contributing investigative journalist for Channel Seven Australia’s SPOTLIGHT public affairs program. Author of forthcoming new book IN PLAIN SIGHT, to be published by HarperCollins internationally from the end of July. Five times winner of Australia’s national journalism prize – the Walkley Award – including the highest award, the Gold Walkley. Winner of a Logie, Australian TV’s top prize (for best public affairs TV reporting), and winner of a New York Film Festival Gold Medal for international investigative journalism. Best-selling author of five books, including a biography of Australia’s First World War official historian Charles Bean that in 2015 won Australia’s prestigious literature award, the Prime Minister’s Literary Award (for Australian History). Presented 2015 International Federation of Journalists/Walkley Press Freedom Award Address on the threat of metadata and communications surveillance. https://vimeo.com/126764845. Member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Washington DC, USA. ICIJ is an international cooperative of investigative journalists who collaborate on major international investigations, including the Panama Papers revelations about international tax evasion