After his novel 'Propinquity' won the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature, John Macgregor wrote the treatments (pre-scripts) for the Australian movie 'Shine'. As a journalist, he interviewed three prime ministers, in syndicated profiles for the Australian dailies; was deported from East Timor while covering human rights abuses by the Indonesians; and reported from Burma on slave labour under the generals, for the New York Times.
He also worked as a political advisor to Senator Janine Haines, federal leader of the Australian Democrats.
In 2001, Macgregor wrote a series of articles in the Age and Sydney Morning Herald on the framing of former Florida politician Joe Gersten, by the FBI and Australia's Federal Police. The stories helped secure Gersten Australian citizenship - and Macgregor the 2002 George Munster Award, Australia's prize for investigative journalism.
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