Through Her Eyes: Australia's Women Correspondents from Hiroshima to Ukraine

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InThrough Her EyesAustralian women correspondents tell their own stories from the frontline covering the breaking news, the issues and the events that are changing the world. They tell of Russian tanks and Ukrainian mothers fleeing with their children, vicious Afghan warlords, anti-government rebels in Central Africa, terrorist attacks in the United States, and the chaos faced by ordinary people caught up in disasters and political upheaval.

While a woman strapping on a reporters flak jacket is now a common sight, there was a time when they were locked out of the big stories because of their gender. Unlike their male counterparts, they needed single-minded determination to score a plum assignment or win a posting to a foreign bureau.

Through Her Eyestells of the exhilaration that comes with a big story but also the dangers, the risks, the struggle and the big issues women still face, from vicious media trolling to threats of sexual violence.

Through Her Eyesincludes well-known women correspondents for major media organisations inside and outside Australia including the ABC, BBC, SBS, CNN,The Associated Press of America, UPI, Reuters,The Timesof London, Al Jazeera, China Global Television Network,The Australian,The Sydney Morning Herald,The Age, and theAustralian Financial Review.

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Trevor Watsonis a journalist and author with more than half a century of national and international experience. He has been a regular visitor to China since 1979 and was based in Beijing as Bureau Chief for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 1988-1990. He was also variously based as ABC correspondent in Singapore, Papua New Guinea, India and Thailand, and covered the South Pacific. Trevor is the author of Tremble and Obey, An ABC Correspondent's Account of the Bloody Beijing Spring which focuses on the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. He is also the recipient for a Walkley Award and The United Nations media prize for excellence in journalism. He was Director of Media for the University of Sydneys Business School for nearly a decade.

Melissa Robertscovered China forTime Magazine, theChristian Science MonitorandThe Daily Mailas a freelance journalist from 1988 to 1990 covering the chaotic years around the Tiananmen Square uprising. She has worked as a staff correspondent forThe Australianin Sydney and Papua New Guinea, reported on federal politics from the press gallery, and covered Singapore and Australia forNewsweekmagazine. Melissa has written five childrens books and is co-editor of The Beijing Bureau, published by Hardie Grant Books in 2021.