Mud Literary Club lunch in McLaren Vale with Peter Greste

Join us for lunch! We are delighted to confirm Peter Greste as our guest. This will mark Mud's second year at Dandelion Vineyards, in the beautiful McLaren Vale.

Professor Peter Greste is an award-winning foreign correspondent who spent 25 years working for the BBC, Reuters and Al Jazeera in some of the world’s most volatile places. From Afghanistan to Latin American, Africa and the Middle East, he reported from the frontlines and beyond, although he is best known for becoming a headline himself, when he and two of his colleagues were arrested in Cairo while working for Al Jazeera, and charged with terrorism offences.

He has since become a vocal campaigner and advocate for media freedom – a stance that has earned him awards from Britain’s Royal Television Society, the Walkley Foundation, the RSL’s ANZAC Peace Prize, the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Human Rights Medal, and the International Association of Press Clubs’ Freedom of Speech Award. He has written about his experiences in Egypt and what he regards as the global war on journalism in his book, The First Casualty. An updated film-tie in edition of this book, now called The Correspondent, is out now. Peter is Executive Director of the advocacy group Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom and Professor of Journalism at Macquarie University. He lives in Brisbane.

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