Stan Grant (b. 1963), a proud Wiradjuri man born in Griffith, New South Wales, grew up wanting to be a journalist. As his father was a saw miller who worked all over central NSW, he attended at least twelve different primary schools before his family moved to Canberra. After he finished school he got a job at the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies; while working there he met Marcia Langton, who encouraged him to go to university. Educated at the University of New South Wales and subsequently at the Australian National University, he worked for The Canberra Times as a copy boy before gaining a cadetship at the Macquarie Radio Network. He then became a political correspondent for the ABC, and has since reported on Australian and international news and political affairs for Channel Seven, CNN International, Sky News Australia and SBS, working in London, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Abu Dhabi. He returned to Sydney in 2012 to help launch SBS's NITV. Grant later joined the ABC as the editor of Indigenous Affairs and became Professor of Global Affairs at Griffith University. In 2019, he moved to Doha, Qatar to work with Al Jazeera. Appointed the Vice-Chancellor's Chair of Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University in 2020, he returned to the ABC as International Affairs Analyst. For his journalism and media work Grant has been awarded three Walkleys, a Peabody award and a DuPont award. He has published numerous books including his family memoir The Tears of Strangers; Talking to My Country; Australia Day; On Identity, published in English and Wiradjuri; Tell it to the World: An Indigenous Memoir; and With the Falling of the Dusk. Grant wrote The Australian Dream (2019), a feature documentary film about the football player Adam Goodes exploring racism, identity and belonging.
