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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.
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Swiss born Urs 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 tourism publications in these countries. 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, in Goulburn, one hour north of Canberra.
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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.
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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.
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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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Lin Kuang is journalist for Sydney-based daily newspaper Australian New Express Daily. Lin has been reporting on politics, business, finance, travel, sports, entertainment and community news and events. She also writes for three leading Chinese print media outlets. The newspaper reaches out to 150 million people and the monthly magazines, which also sell in Australia and the United States, reach a readership of 160 million.
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Rudolf Hermann is the Australia, New Zealand, Oceania correspondent for the Swiss print media group NZZ, or Neue Zuercher Zeitung. Being in its 228th year of publication, NZZ is one of the oldest (and also most highly regarded) European newspapers. Swiss born and bred (until 1990), Rudolf moved from settled-down Switzerland into the dynamically evolving Central and Eastern European landscape, taking up a position with Radio Prague International after the fall of the iron curtain. After a few years work as freelance journalist he became Central European Correspondent for the NZZ Group in 1995 and seized the opportunity of moving on to Australia in 2003 when the post became available. The main focus of his work from Australia is on policitics and business/economics/finance, but stories on the natural beauty of Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, the lives of the so-called ordinary people, and even slightly extravagant subjects like reports on rugby, sailing or horseracing are all part of the "package".
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Hiroki is working as the Australia and South Pacific correspondent for TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. www.tbs.co.jp. He regularly reports for TBS's national news bulletin. He recently won an award for a report on Iwami Silver Mine's selection as World Heritage site. Hiroki has previously worked for OTEN (Open Training and Education Network) as a producer of Japanese language educational programs which were aired on SBS and in Japan as director of news programs on TV Asahi. He has a Bachelor of Business from Aoyama Gakuin University (Japan) and Master of Arts in Journalism from University of Wollongong.
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