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GEORGE NEGUS JOURNALIST • WRITER • TRAVELLER
George Negus, AM, is one of Australia’s best known media professionals with a passion for international affairs which has given him a perspective typical of someone with his enormous global experience as a journalist and traveller.
You probably know George as a founding reporter on Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes, where he cemented his reputation and passion for explaining the world to his audience.
Some of his more famous interviewees include Bob Marley, Steven Spielberg, Robert Redford, Bob Dylan, Meryl Streep, Bill Clinton, the Dalai Lama, Tony Blair, Muammar Ghaddafi, Indira Ghandi and then there was also the infamous exchange with British PM Margaret Thatcher.
Later in his career George became the face of Australia’s first dedicated foreign affairs program, ABC Television's Foreign Correspondent.
After a sabbatical in Italy, George hosted the nationally focussed programs Australia Talks and George Negus Tonight; Channel Seven’s coverage of both Gulf Wars; SBS TV’s flagship international affairs program Dateline, TEN Network’s 2011 news analysis program at 6/630pm and became a regular contributor to The Project.
Between 2005 and 2010 George travelled with Dateline to countries including Bangladesh, Libya, Ireland, the UK, Canada and the United States and interviewed Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, Colonel Gaddafi, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and the Dalai Lama. Many more interviews are included in The World From Down Under, a book published at the end of his time at SBS.
George's writing is diverse: He is the author of The World from Islam and also a children's book series Trev the Truck.
George continues as an occasional international and national affairs commentator on Australian TV and radio, and works as a consultant and facilitator for government and industry.
His current speech, dubbed The World was Never going to be the Same, is George’s perspective and reminder of just how much change – which may often seem unimaginable – always emerges and alters people's lives in the most extraordinary and exciting way.
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