David Marr, Michael Bachelard, Robert Wainwright and Paola Totaro discuss their eye-opening research and resulting books, covering the Henson controversy, the Exclusive Brethren, and the Port Arthur massacre.
MICHAEL BACHELARD (INTERSTATE) MICHAEL BACHELARD is an Australian journalist and author. Formerly part of The Age’s investigative team, he now writes for The Sunday Age. In 2008 he won a Quill award for best news report in print. His most recent book is Behind The Exclusive Brethren.
PETER FITZSIMONS (LOCAL) PETER FITZSIMONS is a bestselling biographer and has been a columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and London Daily Telegraph for over a decade. He is also a television presenter on Fox Sports and broadcaster on Radio 2UE.
He has played rugby for Australia and written 12 books, including biographies of World Cup winning Wallaby captain, Nick Farr-Jones, and former Leader of the Opposition, Kim Beazley. In 2001 he released biographies of both John Eales and Australia's most decorated war heroine, Nancy Wake, which stayed on the bestseller lists for 29 weeks between them, and have sold 220,000 copies to date.
In 2003 he released his book on the Kokoda Track, which was Australia's #1 selling non fiction book of the year, and he followed that up with Tobruk in 2006. In 2007 he was the Books Alive author with his biography of Les Darcy.
He is a Director of the Board of Sydney Writers’ Festival.
DAVID MARR (LOCAL) DAVID MARR is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist. David is the author of several books including The Henson Case, which focused on the controversy surrounding the photographic images of artist Bill Henson, Dark Victory, co-authored with Marian Wilkinson, Patrick White: A Life and the Quarterly Essay 'His Master’s Voice: The Corruption of Public Debate Under Howard’.
PAOLA TOTARO (LOCAL) PAOLA TOTARO is the European correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Before her posting to London, she was editor of the Saturday Sydney Morning Herald. Paola has held some of the paper's most senior positions in her 26-year career, including editing News Review, heading the Herald's state political bureau and leading the Education and Urban Affairs teams. In 1992, she co-edited the first Herald Guide to Schools book. She has just been elected to the management committee of the 140-year-old Foreign Press Association of London. Paola is the co-author of Born or Bred: The Martin Bryant Story with Robert Wainwright.
ROBERT WAINWRIGHT (LOCAL) ROBERT WAINWRIGHT has been a journalist for 30 years, rising from the grassroots of country journalism in Western Australia to become a senior writer with The Sydney Morning Herald. His career has ranged from politics to crime, always focusing on the people behind the major news of the day. He was a Walkley Awards finalist in 2004. He is the author of Rose: The Unauthorised Biography of Rose Hancock Porteous, The Lost Boy and The Killing of Caroline Byrne. Robert is the co-author, with Paolo Totaro, of Born or Bred: The Martin Bryant Story.
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