Quentin Dempster
Journalist, ABC Television
Quentin Dempster currently presents Stateline NSW on ABC TV. He is chairman of the Walkley Board, which judges and administers the annual awards for excellence in Australian journalism. He has been a print and television journalist for 40 years.
In 1986, he wrote and produced the highly acclaimed documentary The Sunshine System, exposing institutionalised corruption in Queensland. He has written three books: Honest Cops (1992); Whistleblowers (1997) and Death Struggle — how political malice and boardroom powerplays are killing the ABC (2000). In 1992, he was awarded an Order of Australia for services to the media, particularly in journalism and current affairs. He was staff-elected director of the ABC from 1992 to 1996.
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