Karen Dorante spoke with Jeffrey McMullen, a former Australian journalist. He was a foreign correspondent for the ABC for almost two decades (1966–1984), a reporter for the investigative television program Four Corners and later joined the Australian version of 60 Minutes (1984–2000).
Throughout his professional life McMullen has written, filmed and campaigned around the world to improve the health, education and human rights of Indigenous people.
He is the Honorary CEO of Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth, developing early learning programs and the Literacy Backpack project in 22 remote Australian Aboriginal communities over the past decade.
Jeffrey McMullen is also the Director of AIME (Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience), Director of the Australian Indigenous Engineering Aid Summer School program that is building opportunities in tertiary education and Trustee of the Jimmy Little Foundation.