Graeme Dobell was until 2008, the foreign affairs/defence correnspondent in Canberra for Radio Australia and ABC Radio.

Assignments in his career as a correspondent have included the Falklands War, coups in Fiji, Thailand and the Philippines, Beijing after the crushing of the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square, and the return of Hong Kong to China.

He is the author of Australia Finds Home – The Choices and Chances of an Asia Pacific Journey (ABC Books, 2000), a survey of the choices and actions Australia has taken in its relationship with the Asia-Pacific.