| Greg Bearup | |
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| Born | April 3, 1969 Guyra, NSW, Australia |
| Occupation | Journalist, Author |
Greg Bearup is an Australian journalist, author and international election expert. He currently a feature writer at the Good Weekend magazine which is distributed with both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age on Saturdays.
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Greg Bearup started as a cadet at The Armidale Express in 1988. He then went on to work at The Inverell Times, The Newcastle Herald and The Sydney Morning Herald, working as chief police reporter, an investigative journalist and general reporter. Since 2001 he has worked for the Good Weekend magazine where he has twice been awarded a Walkley Award for his writing. The screenplay for the film Suburban Mayhem was based on the feature ``Death Surrounds Her".
In 2004/5 he took two years’ leave from his job at the magazine and worked for the United Nations on the elections for Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Iraqi’s living in Syria. He then spent six months in Bamyan, in the remote mountains of Central Afghanistan, working on the Afghan Parliamentary Elections in 2005. During this time he also filed for The Guardian, The Times and the Christian Science Monitor.
In 2008 Bearup travelled around Australia in a caravan with his partner, Lisa Upton, and young son, Joe. The adventure was documented in the book 'Adventures in Caravanastan: Around Australia at 80ks' (Random House Australia, ISBN 9781741666298)
2003 Walkley Award: Good Weekend "On the inside no-one can hear you scream"
2001 Walkley Award: Good Weekend "Death Surrounds Her"