WHO I am.

I have been a wordsmith all my life. For 20 years I was a journalist and a foreign correspondent. Then, for another 20 years I was a speechwriter, a press secretary, and a communications manager. At 25, I left Australia and spent the next 12 years in Southeast Asia, principally in the Philippines where I reported for 10 radio stations and three newspapers. I reported extensively on the 21-year dictatorship of President Ferdinand E. Marcos which ended in a People Power revolution in 1986. Back in Australia, I spent a further three years covering Australian and Pacific news for four international broadcasters. For 11 years, I was the Corporate Communications Manager for SBS, Australia’s multilingual and multicultural national broadcaster.