Geoff Kitney has had a career in journalism spanning some of the most tumultuous years of modern Australian political history. After commencing his career on local newspapers in country Western Australia he worked as a senior correspondent for major newspapers in the Canberra Press Gallery from just before the 1975 Loans Affair and the sacking of the Whitlam government, until the most recent federal election. He also worked as a foreign correspondent for the Fairfax newspapers from nearly a decade, based in Berlin and London. He has won several awards for his work and has also contributed to books on Prime Ministers Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke. He lives in Canberra and continues to write for various outlets.