Principal speaker
Professor Graeme Dobell
The Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University and the Australian Centre of Asia-Pacific Art, Queensland Art Gallery would like to invite you to the Perspectives: Asia seminar, titled 'Shock Horror - Drongo Oz Journo Runs Amok in Asia!! - How the Australian media assesses the importance of Asian news' by Mr Graeme Dobell.
Graeme Dobell is one of the ABC's most experienced reporters of Asia Pacific affairs. Previously the ABC's South East Asia radio correspondent in Singapore he is now the Canberra-based Foreign Affairs and Defence Correspondent for Radio Australia, reporting also for ABC radio news and current affairs programs.
He joined the ABC in 1975 and has concentrated mostly on reporting politics and international affairs, serving as a correspondent in Europe, America and throughout Asia and the Pacific.Since 1985 Graeme has focused on reporting the affairs of the Asia Pacific region and has covered the APEC summits and the security dialogue of the ASEAN Regional Forum.Assignments in his career as a correspondent have included the Falklands War, coups in Fiji, Thailand and the Philippines, Beijing after the crushing of the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square and the return of Hong Kong to China.
He is the author of "Australia Finds Home - The Choices and Chances of an Asia Pacific Journey" (ABC Books) a 400 page book on Australia’s relationship with the Asia Pacific, published in 2000.
Event categories
RSVP
RSVP on or before Monday 19 November 2007 , by email kathy.bailey@griffith.edu.au , or by phone 3735 3730