Alan Sunderland is a Walkley Award winning television reporter and the author of a number of children's books. He has 25 years' experience in journalism with the ABC and SBS. During that time, he worked in the Canberra Press Gallery, reported throughout Australia and overseas, and managed SBS' News and Current Affairs Department. He won Walkley Awards for covering an attack on the Iranian Embassy in Canberra in 1992, and for a series of exclusive reports from East Timor. He has also won the prestigious Council of the Deans of Education Award for education journalism three times in two years.
