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Bill Birnbauer, Australia, is an investigative reporter at The Sunday Age (The Age) in Melbourne.

, Australia

He has 30 years experience in print journalism, has written two books and recently has produced documentaries for ABC and SBS television in Australia. In 1993, he became a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. He was one of the first reporters to use Australia’s Freedom of Information laws, unearthing documents on potential nuclear station power sites, and later, obtaining mortality rates for states hospitals. He has won numerous awards, including a Melbourne Press Club Quill award and shared a Walkley Award, Australia’s top journalism prize, for a narrative on the Port Arthur massacre, in which a gunman killed 35 people. In 2004 he won two legal reporting awards for his stories on a senior tobacco company executive who turned whistleblower and detailed an international strategy to destroy damaging internal documents. He has participated in two ICIJ projects: the first exposing links between organized crime syndicates and Big Tobacco, as well as The Water Barons, an award-winning project on the privatization on water.

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