Peter Rees has been a journalist for forty years, working as federal political correspondent for the "Melbourne Sun", the "West Australian" and the "Sunday Telegraph". He is the author of "The Boy from Boree Creek: The Tim Fischer Story" (2001), "Tim Fischer's Outback Heroes" (2002), "Killing Juanita: A true story of murder and corruption" (2004), which was a winner of the 2004 Ned Kelly Award for Australian crime writing, "Desert Boys" and "Lancaster Men" (2013). He lives in Canberra.