Hamish Macdonald

Hamish Macdonald is an award-winning journalist who has covered wars, disasters, and major world events, in Australia and the UK working for the American network ABC News, the UK’s Chanel 4 News and Al Jazeera English, and Network Ten and the ABC in Australia. He has delivered ground-breaking news reports from Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Afghanistan, and Libya, fronted investigative documentary specials, and hosted or co-hosted television programs and specials. He was Young Journalist of the Year in Britain in 2008, and anchored Al Jazeera's International Emmy-nominated coverage of the Georgia-Russia war from Tbilisi. Hamish has studied Arabic in Yemen and Indonesian in Jakarta. He is co-host with Geraldine Doogue of Global Roaming, a weekly radio program on ABC Radio National on foreign policy issues.