[5] After graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 1987, his broadcasting experience began in radio, as a newsreader and reporter, specialising in politics and international affairs.
As well as anchoring the network's World News, he hosted Dateline, Tonight, Asia Report and Wine Lover’s Guide to Australia.
[8][9][10][11] The program was SBS's largest international success, with the series repeated on Foxtel's Lifestyle Channel, as well as shown on cable television in Europe, Asia and Canada.
[12] In 2001, he wrote, produced, directed and narrated Class, a four-episode documentary series for SBS that looks at the "slow death of egalitarian Australia".
[15][16][17] From 2007 to 2008, he co-wrote and co-directed The Last Trimate—a one-hour documentary on the life of Birutė Galdikas and her pioneering study of Borneo's orangutans, which was narrated by Mel Gibson.