Graham Hunt Davis (born 7 October 1953) is a

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and

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winning

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

an-born

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. He hosts a weekly Australian television program, The Great Divide on the Southern Cross Austereo TV Network

and is a consultant to the Washington-based global communications company

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on its Fiji account.

Early life

Davis was born in Suva,

, the elder son of the Rev Peter Davis, who served as President of the

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in Fiji and, later,

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Moderator of the

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. He spent his early years on the island of Lakeba in the Lau Group and attended Buca District School, Savusavu, and Drasa Avenue School, Lautoka, before being sent to

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, Sydney (1966–1971) as a boarder.

Radio

Davis worked as a journalist in Britain and Australia for the

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(External Services/World Service News),

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and the

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before moving to

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as a news reporter with the Seven Network in Sydney in 1981.

Television

In 1983 Davis joined the

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and the staff of the weekly program ''

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'' and remained there until 1994. For the next ten years he was an occasional guest reporter for ''Sunday'' and worked for the

Seven Network The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of ...

, SBS and with ''

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'' on the ABC. In 2004, Davis returned full-time to ''Sunday'' and remained there until August 2006. He co-founded Grubstreet Media in 2007. The company produced the 2007 and 2008 Asia Pacific Screen Awards and associated programming for Queensland Events and CNN International and conceived the First Australians Business Awards for the Australian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce. It also made television documentaries and commercials. In 2011, Grubstreet produced the national television and cinema campaign "Australian Mining. This is Our Story" for Lawrence Creative and the Minerals Council of Australia. In 2012, Davis was engaged as host of The Great Divide, a weekly political discussion program on the Southern Cross Austereo network (www.thegreatdivideshow.com.au)

Print

Davis is a columnist for the Fiji Sun, the country's biggest selling newspaper (www.fijisun.com.fj).He has written regularly for The Australian and his work has also appeared in '' The Bulletin'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and the ''

Fiji Times ''The Fiji Times'' is a daily English-language newspaper published in Suva, Fiji. Established in Levuka on 4 September 1869 by George Littleton Griffiths, it is Fiji's oldest newspaper still operating. ''The Fiji Times'' is owned by Motibhai G ...

''. He also writes the blog
Grubsheet
Feejee.

Awards

He is the winner of a number of awards including the 1995 Walkley Award for Best Investigative Report for a report on commercial infiltration of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and a 1994 Logie Award for a story "Ships of Shame", on the parlous state of world shipping. His 2002 report, Silent Witnesses - which detailed cases of child abuse in the Jehovah's Witnesses - won a New York Festivals Award in the US. In 2004 he gained an award from the Australian Council of Deans of Education for the Sunday program "Cash Cow Campuses", which exposed a plagiarism scandal at the University of Newcastle, Also in 2004, he won a National Press Club Excellence in Health Award for the Sunday investigation "Killer Hospitals". He also holds a Michael Daley Award for science reporting.

Peer assessment

Davis has judged the Walkley Awards and Qantas New Zealand Media Awards and was on the national panel that reviewed the Australian Journalists' Code of Ethics.Four Corners - Journalism of Journalism
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References

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