Paul Toohey

Paul Toohey is a three-time Walkley Award-winning journalist and Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year. He spent most of his career with News Corp Australia covering Indigenous affairs and regional crises. He is the author of three non-fiction titles, God’s Little Acre, a collection of stories, and Rocky Goes West, about the disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in Irian Jaya (Duffy & Snellgrove), and The Killer Within (Allen & Unwin), about the murder of Peter Falconio. He has authored two Quarterly Essays on major political events, Last Drinks, on the Northern Territory intervention, and That Sinking Feeling, on asylum-seekers (Black Inc). He has been published in Granta and in collections of Australia’s best political writing. His first fiction work, Bad Face, a western, has been optioned for a film. He lives in Darwin.