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Peter Trickett
2+ albums
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A journalist by profession, Peter Trickett has written for newspapers and magazines in Australia, New Zealand and Britain, specialising in science, historical and investigative reporting. While working as a science journalist in Oxford, England, he won a national travelling fellowship for science journalism, using this award to study and write on science and environmental topics in Japan. In New Zealand, where he worked as a senior writer with the New Zealand Herald and the Listener magazine, he won awards for historical journalism. Since coming to Australia in 1982 he has worked as an editor for the Australian National University in Canberra and as a Senior Officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, where he was a writer and editor for the Australian Government’s overseas aid program. Peter Trickett is also the author of "Beyond Capricorn, How Portuguese Adventurers Secretly Discovered and Mapped Australia and New Zealand 250 years Before Captain Cook", published by East Street Publications. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.