He studied journalism and got a cadetship with the ABC in 1972, where he was given the nickname "milkfingers" as a result of an on-air mishap.
He then worked on The Big Country and The Australians before moving into feature filmmaking with A Street to Die (1985).
[2] He dropped out of Medicine at the University of Queensland in 1972 and joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a journalist.
In mid 2024, distributors Maslow Entertainment will be releasing Bill's latest film, The Way, My Way, based on his best selling Camino memoir of the same title.
Bill Bennett is also an author, with Penguin Random House recently publishing his YA supernatural thriller trilogy, Palace of Fires.