Mark Cornelius Whittaker (born 29 July 1965[1]) is an Australian journalist, non-fiction writer and writing coach.
[1] In 1985 Whittaker commenced as a copy boy with News Limited and became a staff writer on The Weekend Australian Magazine in 1993.
In 2016, SBS Australia ran a 5-part podcast series called Out of Sight: The Untold Story of Adelaide’s Gay Hate Murders which was written and narrated by Whittaker.
[4][5] The series highlighted gay-hate crimes, including the murder of George Duncan, The Family Murders, and the deaths of David "John" Saint (d. April 1991), Robert Woodland (d. 2004), and Andrew Negre (d. April 2011).
In 2019, he investigated the death of Jimmy O'Connell to write and narrate a podcast about the murder, Blood Territory,[6] for Audible.