About the Author

Kevin Ricketts is an Australian journalist who has reported in a career of 40 years the gamut of state and federal politics and crime, finance, trade unions, royal commission inquiries in Sydney and the national capital, Canberra. He has been a foreign correspondent in Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and London/Europe and been a war correspondent in Bougainville (Papua New Guinea), the Solomons (South Pacific), Soweto (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. He has also been a beef cattle producer (rancher) in the far north coast of New South Wales, Australia)!