Tom Morton is a journalist and broadcaster with ABC Radio National. He is the author of Altered Mates: The Man Question (Allen and Unwin, 1997) and writes regularly for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Tom is presently working on a novel set in the late 18th century and based on the life of Georg Forster, a German writer, traveller and revolutionary who accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage around the world and died in Paris in 1794, at the height of the French revolution.