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Hamish McDonald


Born
Australia

Hamish McDonald is an Australian journalist and author of several books. He held a fellowship at the American think tank the Woodrow Wilson Centre in 2014.

McDonald has worked as a journalist in mostly Asian countries like India, Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong and China, where he was a correspondent based in Beijing from 2002 to 2005. He was in India between 1990 and 1997, covering the time immediately after the economic reforms. He was the political editor for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the foreign editor for the Sydney Morning Herald.

In 2005, he won the Walkley Award for newspaper feature writing for his article "What's Wrong With Falun Gong", which is about the brutal suppression of the Falun Gong religious movement in China.
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The Polyester Prince: The R...

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Ambani & Sons

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Demokrasi: Indonesia in the...

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Mahabharata in Polyester: T...

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Finitude

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Framed

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“I am willing to salaam anyone. One thing you won't find in me and that is ego. - Dhirubhai Ambani”
Hamish McDonald, Ambani & Sons

“Nobody is a permanent friend,nobody is a permanent enemy. Everybody has his own self-interest. Once you recognise that, everybody will be better off.”
Hamish McDonald, The Polyester Prince: The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani

“Ideas are no one's monopoly - Dhirubhai Ambani”
Hamish McDonald, Ambani & Sons

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