 He returned to Australia to be the presenter of AM (ABC Radio) before becoming Foreign Affairs Editor.In his career with the ABC he has also reported on the end of apartheid in South Africa, the Palestinian in the Occupied Territories, glasnost and perestroika in the former Soviet Union, the break-up of the former Yugoslavia and wars in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Lebanon, two Gulf wars, the fall of President Suharto in Indonesia,The civil unrest in East Timor, the first Bali Bombing, three Fijian Coups, the troubles in Northern Ireland, the 2011 Egyptian revolution, the 2011 Libyan civil war.and the uprising in Syria.