Hills, Ben

Ben Hills, one of Australia's leading investigative journalists and foreign correspondents, is a winner of the Walkley Award (Australia's Pulitzer) and the Graham Perkin Award for Australian Journalist of the Year. From 1992 to 1995, he was the Japan correspondent for "The Sydney Morning Herald" and "The Age," also covering issues and events in China, Siberia, and North and South Korea. His previous books are "Japan: Behind the Lines," an account of his three years as a correspondent in Japan, and "Blue Murder," a chronicle of the battle for justice by victims of CSR's Wittenoom asbestos mine