Swiss born Urs Wälterlin is South Pacific correspondent for a range of major dailies and financial papers in Switzerland, Germany and Austria (e.g. Handelsblatt, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Finanz und Wirtschaft, Tages-Anzeiger) as well as for Swiss National Public Radio SRDRS. He is the Editor-In-Chief of the German language online magazine WombatMagazin. Since coming to Australia in 1992, Urs has been reporting on politics, business, finance, travel and many less serious issues. He is one of the few foreign correspondents residing outside a capital city. Urs and his family have a small farm, Wombat Creek, near Goulburn, one hour north of Canberra.

Kede Lawson covers the Oceania region for Japan's largest news agency, Kyodo News. She writes for the agency's English-language news wire, Kyodo World Service, and reports on everything from politics to the antics of Aussie fans of Japanese pop culture. After completing a degree in international business, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region, Kede followed the time-honoured Antipodean tradition of jetting off to the UK. Based in London for four years, Kede squeezed in as much travel as possible around Africa and Europe before returning to Australia to finish a masters degree in journalism at University of Technology, Sydney.

Having arrived in Australia in 1980, Juergen is one of the longest serving foreign journalists in this country. He is a documentary filmmaker for German Television and multi-media reporter. Juergen is presently the correspondent in Australia for the Axel-Springer Group of Newspapers in Germany, Europe's largest producers of newsprint.

Paul Cotton has been a member of the FCA since 1990 when he was New Zealand's Consul-General in Sydney. Since retiring from the diplomatic service, he continued to reside in Sydney, representing New Zealand's interests in the build-up to the 2000 Olympics and now writes an occasional column for New Zealand newspapers.

Don Fuchs is a Sydney-based freelance photojournalist, specialising in travel, nature and eco-journalism. His text and photos are published in major Australian and German magazines as well as French and American publications. He is a regular contributor to the Journal of the Australian Geographic Society. Since 2002, he is a member of LOOK, one of Germany's leading image libraries. Born in April 1959 in Murnau in Bavaria/Southern Germany, he graduated in economics and did his apprenticeship with the leading German travel magazine ABENTEUER & REISEN. For six years from 1987 to 1993, he was one of the editors for the mountaineering magazine, BERGE. In 1995, he was appointed Australia correspondent for ABENTEUER & REISEN. He has also been the features editor of the Australian magazine Expanse.

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Esther represents Deutsche Welle, German Radio and TV, the weekly news magazine FOCUS, and a variety of national German broadcasters and newspapers in Australia and the Pacific. She has been a foreign correspondent for over 25 years, reporting on politics, culture, lifestyle and travel(sometimes even sport!)from European countries, the Middle East, North America and Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. She is the author of three books about Australia. Esther was one of the early FCA members. She was the first correspondent mother to bring her baby daughter to interviews, lunches and international events - causing interesting reactions by politicians and celebrities. Esther has been an active FCA member for more than 20 years, a board member for many years and was elected President and Vice-President twice before in the 1990s. She is married to an Australian journalist, lives near the beach in Sydney with her family and loves riding her horse.