Hamish McDonald explained

Hamish McDonald is an Australian journalist and author of several books.^[1] He held a fellowship at the American think tank the Woodrow Wilson Centre in 2014.

Career

McDonald has worked as a journalist in mostly Asian countries like India, Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong and China, where he was a correspondent based in Beijing from 2002 to 2005. He was in India between 1990 and 1997, covering the time immediately after the economic reforms.^[2] He was the political editor for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the foreign editor for the Sydney Morning Herald.^[1]

In 2005, he won the Walkley Award for newspaper feature writing for his article "What's Wrong With Falun Gong", which is about the brutal suppression of the Falun Gong religious movement in China.^[3]

Bibliography

• Book: McDonald, Hamish . Suharto's Indonesia . 1980 . -->.
• The Polyester Prince, 1998: This unauthorized biography of Dhirubhai Ambani never went to print in India after the publishers were threatened with legal action by the Ambani family.^[4]
• Death in Balibo, Lies in Canberra, 2001: Co-authored with Desmond Ball
• Masters of Terror: Indonesia's Military & Violence in East Timor in 1999, 2002
• McDonald, Hamish . Desmond O'Grady . Desmond O'Grady . amp . Autumn 2010 . Between two worlds . Reportage . Griffith Review . 27 . limited . 2021-02-17-->.
• Mahabharata in Polyester: The Making of the World’s Richest Brothers and Their Feud, 2010:^[5] The book was published in India as Ambani and Sons.^{[4] [6]}
• A War of Words, University of Queensland Press, 2014.
• Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21st Century, St. Martin's Press, 2015

References

1. Web site: Hamish McDonald. The Age. 20 February 2014.
2. Web site: Hamish McDonald. Center for Strategic and International Studies. 20 February 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140225133906/http://www.csis.or.id/profile/hamish-mcdonald. 25 February 2014. dmy-all.
3. News: Age staff win journalism's top awards. 20 February 2014. The Age. 2 December 2005.
   - News: What's wrong with Falun Gong. 20 February 2014. The Age. 16 October 2004.
4. News: The return of The Polyester Prince. 20 February 2014. Business Standard. 2 October 2010.
5. News: A Durable Yarn. 20 February 2014. The Economist. 4 November 2010.
6. News: Hamish McDonald - The Reliance split is good for India. 20 February 2014. Live Mint. 23 September 2010. Veena Venugopal.
   - News: Cream Weaver. 20 February 2014. Outlook India. 4 October 2010.