His life as a reporter is dramatized in Australian writer/director/producer Tristan Pemberton's feature film "The Last Nomads", the story of a group of nomadic Aboriginal people's first contact with the outside world in 1986.
While an investigative reporter in Sydney, Australia, went undercover as a high school student for six weeks.
Formerly a controversial civil rights reporter, was named an Australian Journalist of the Year while a staff writer with The Sydney Morning Herald.