Hamish McDonald

For others with the same or similar names, see Hamish MacDonald (disambiguation).

Hamish McDonald is an Australian journalist and author of several books.^[1] He held a fellowship at the American think tank the Woodrow Wilson Centre in 2014.

Career

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.^[2] He was the political editor for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the foreign editor for the Sydney Morning Herald.^[1]

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.^[3]

Bibliography

• McDonald, Hamish (1980). Suharto's Indonesia.
• The Polyester Prince, 1998: This unauthorized biography of Dhirubhai Ambani never went to print in India after the publishers were threatened with legal action by the Ambani family.^[4]
• Death in Balibo, Lies in Canberra, 2001: Co-authored with Desmond Ball
• Masters of Terror: Indonesia's Military & Violence in East Timor in 1999, 2002
• McDonald, Hamish & Desmond O'Grady (Autumn 2010). "Between two worlds". Reportage. Griffith Review. 27.
• Mahabharata in Polyester: The Making of the World’s Richest Brothers and Their Feud, 2010:^[5] The book was published in India as Ambani and Sons.^[4][6]
• A War of Words, University of Queensland Press, 2014.
• Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21st Century, St. Martin's Press, 2015