Greg Bearup is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n journalist, author and international election expert. He currently a feature writer at the Good Weekend magazine which is distributed with both The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia. The newspaper is published six days a week. The newspaper's Sunday counterpart, The...

and The Age

The Age

The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...

on Saturdays.

Career

Greg Bearup started as a cadet at The Armidale Express in 1988. He then went on to work at The Inverell Times, The Newcastle Herald and The Sydney Morning Herald, working as chief police reporter, an investigative journalist and general reporter. Since 2001 he has worked for the Good Weekend magazine where he has twice been awarded a Walkley Award for his writing.
The screenplay for the film Suburban Mayhem

Suburban Mayhem

Suburban Mayhem is a 2006 Australian film directed by Paul Goldman, written by Alice Bell, produced by Leah Churchill-Brown and Executive Producer Jan Chapman. It features an ensemble cast including Emily Barclay, Michael Dorman, Anthony Hayes, Robert Morgan and Genevieve Lemon...

was based on the feature ``Death Surrounds Her".

United Nations

In 2004/5 he took two years’ leave from his job at the magazine and worked for the United Nations on the elections for Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Iraqi’s living in Syria. He then spent six months in Bamyan, in the remote mountains of Central Afghanistan, working on the Afghan Parliamentary Elections in 2005. During this time he also filed for The Guardian, The Times and the Christian Science Monitor.

Publications

In 2008 Bearup travelled around Australia in a caravan with his partner, Lisa Upton, and young son, Joe. The adventure was documented in the book 'Adventures in Caravanastan: Around Australia at 80ks' (Random House Australia, ISBN 9781741666298)

Awards

2003 Walkley Award: Good Weekend "On the inside no-one can hear you scream"

2001 Walkley Award: Good Weekend "Death Surrounds Her"

External links

• Death Surrounds Her - a feature by Greg Bearup