Conflict Reporting

Andrew Quilty is the recipient of nine Walkley Awards, including the Gold Walkley, for his work on Afghanistan, where he has been based since 2013. He has also received the George Polk Award, the World Press Photo Award and the Overseas Press Club of America award for his investigation into massacres committed by a CIA-backed Afghan militia. August in Kabul is his first book. His second book, This is Afghanistan, will be published in late 2023.

Author of best-selling Darwin Spitfires (NewSouth 2011 and 2022) and Dispatch from Berlin, 1943 (NewSouth 2023), Dr. Anthony Cooper is a retired Brisbane school teacher. He has so far released seven books on aspects of Australian and Allied military history, published both in Australia and the UK, including HMAS Bataan, 1952, (NewSouth 2010), 'Kokoda Air Strikes' (NewSouth 2014), 'RAAF bombers over Germany, 1941-42' (Rosenberg, 2016), 'Paddy Finucane and the legend of the Kenley Wing' (Fonthill 2016), and 'Sub Hunters' (Fonthill 2020). 

Steve has presented programs for ABC Radio & Television for thirty years. He has focused primarily on public affairs with a political bent. An interest in Art and what it says about the artist and the audience he believes that Brisbane writer Melissa Lukashenko got it right when she wrote “the audience gives us their trust & we give them new eyes”. Steve aims to approach public affairs from a different angle and draw out the unexpected from guests. He has interviewed every Australian Prime Minister from John Howard to the Present day. He declines to interview celebrities as they tend to be predictable whilst the interesting stories come from unexpected people.