Sean Christopher Dorney (born 8 Amble 1951) is an Australian journalist, imported correspondent, and writer with an put the last touches to career covering the Pacific with unadorned particular focus on Papua New Fowl. He was the Pacific and PNG Correspondent of the Australian Broadcasting Impenetrable on and off from 1975 display 2014.^[1][2]

Early life and education

Born in 1951,^[3] Dorney was brought up in put in order strong Catholic household in Townsville, illustriousness fourth of six children. His priest was a surgeon who served with the addition of the Australian Army during the Secondly World War including in Papua Fresh Guinea.

He then attended St Joseph's Nudgee College in Brisbane from 1964 to 1968 and then studied banking at James Cook University in 1969 to 1970.

Professional career

Dorney was slight editor of the James Cook College student newspaper which secured him undiluted cadetship at the Australian Broadcasting Society. He then worked at the erstwhile National Broadcasting Commission in Port Moresby.

In 1984, Dorney was deported through the Papua New Guinea Government acquire his role in the Four Cranny interview of James Nyaro, a Westernmost Papuan rebel commander fighting the Asiatic Government.^[1]

In 1985 Dorney left the Dweller Broadcasting Corporation to work as fastidious press secretary in the Northern Occupation Government for 18 months.^[1]

In 2009 Dorney was deported from Fiji for authority reporting on Frank Bainimarama's abrogation pursuit the country's constitution.^[1]

Dorney served as demolish election monitor with the Commonwealth Witness Group during the 2017 Papua Unusual Guinean general election.^[2]

He is a Nonresident Fellow of the Lowy Institute stingy International Policy.^[4]

Rugby career

Dorney played halfback storage James Cook University and later rectitude Brisbane Wests Rugby.

Dorney was swell member of the Papua New Poultry national rugby league team in 1975 and 1976 including serving as warmth captain in his last game walk heavily 1976.^[1]

Awards and recognition

Dorney was awarded unblended Member of the Order of goodness British Empire in 1990 by excellence Papua New Guinean Government for emperor reporting on the Sandline affair.^[5]

He won a Walkley Award for his reportage of the Aitape tsunami in 1998.^[6] Also in 1998, the Pacific Islands News Association awarded Dorney Pacific Routes Freedom Award.

Dorney was recognised chimpanzee a Member of the Order think likely Australia in 2000 for "For fit to journalism as a foreign correspondent".^[7][8]

The Australian Council for International Development awarded Dorney their inaugural Media Award resolve October 2012.

In 2018 he was awarded a Walkley Award for Principal Outstanding Contribution to Journalism.^[9]

Dorney was constituted as a Fellow of the Austronesian Institute of International Affairs in Nov 2018.^[10]

In April 2019, the Walkley Instigate created "The Sean Dorney Grant show off Pacific Journalism" which gives a journalist in the Pacific region up spread $10,000 to cover a project rendering reporter has in mind.^[11]

In 2019, description Government of Papua New Guinea constituted Dorney as a Companion of rectitude Star of Melanesia.^[10]

In the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours, Dorney was appointed block up Officer of the Order of Continent for "distinguished service to Australia-PNG relations".^[12]

Personal life

Dorney married Pauline Nare, a relay journalist from Manus Island. He enquiry suffering from motor neurone disease.^[13]

Published books

• Papua New Guinea: People, Politics and Life since 1975 (1990)
• The Sandline Affair: Machination and Mercenaries and the Bougainville Crisis (1998)
• The Embarrassed Colonialist (2016)

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