Dominic Dunne is an award-winning journalist who has worked on major Australian newspapers. He started his career as a cadet reporter in Brisbane in 1984, later moving to Sydney to be an interstate correspondent. He was recruited by Qantas Airways and promoted to the executive position of Assistant to the CEO, and in 2004 relocated to Washington DC where he was employed by the Australian Embassy as a communications consultant before returning to Sydney. Dunne and his twin brother were born in Brisbane and raised with their five siblings on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. He is a keen traveller, having visited more than 60 countries, and has written about many of them.