Now a freelance editor and author, I have been a long-term journalist in newspapers, radio and television. Newspapers included the Guardian London, The Scotsman Edinburgh and The Advertiser Adelaide. In Perth, Western Australia, I won several awards for TV investigative reporting. In Adelaide I was awarded Journalist of the Year. My first book published by the ABC and available now as an e-book through Harper Collins is called Three Weeks in Bali. It is an eyewitness account of the Bali bombings in 2002 in which 200 people died, including 88 Australians. I also contributed to Dr Yael Danieli's book The Trauma of Terrorism (Howarth Press). My new book The Trials of Billy Freeman is the true story of a former child convict ancestor (who I did not know about until recently!). Billy arrived in NSW aged 14 having been sentenced to 7 years' transportation with hard labour for stealing cheese. He gained his freedom indentured to a NSW pastoralist then came across country in 1838 on Captain Charles Sturt's "forgotten journey" - bringing cattle from NSW to South Australia. Billy Freeman, who lived to 81, was a colourful character who though technically a free man lived under the "stain" of convictism in Australia's early settlement days. Read more about this authorRead less about this author