John Martinkus

Lecturer

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John Martinkus began work as a journalist freelancing news and feature stories from East Timor in 1995. He then covered the conflict there for Associated Press and Australian Associated Press and various other outlets. He has since covered conflicts elsewhere in Indonesia and in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Burma for print and since 2004 for SBS Dateline. He has published three non fiction accounts of the conflicts in East Timor, Aceh and Iraq and been nominated for three Walkley awards for his coverage of East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan in both print and television and highly commended once. In 2002 his book on East Timor A Dirty Little War was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s literary awards and in the same year he published Quarterly Essay No 7: Paradise Betrayed – West Papua’s struggle for independence.