Nicolas Rothwell
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Nicolas Rothwell (born 1960) is a journalist and the Northern Australia correspondent for The Australian newspaper. He is also a writer with two novels and several works of non-fiction to his name.
Rothwell is the child of a Czech mother, Anna, and an Australian father, Bruce, a journalist from Melbourne.[1] They had met in Berlin, and then moved to New York City where Rothwell was born in 1960 in Manhattan.[1] Rothwell attended boarding school in Switzerland, and read Latin and Greek at Oxford.[1] In the 1980s and early 1990s he was a foreign correspondent for The Australian and reported from the Americas, the Pacific and Western and Eastern Europe, latterly during the Yugoslav conflict. Burned out by the latter upheaval, in the 1990s he sought out a posting in Australia, again for The Australian newspaper. As of 2022[update], he was based in Far North Queensland.[2] His partner is indigenous activist and politician Alison Anderson.
Journalism
The majority of Rothwell's articles can be found in The Australian newspaper. Some of the best are collected in his book Another Country (2007). He won a Walkley Award in 2006 for his journalistic coverage of Indigenous affairs.
In 2009, Rothwell welcomed efforts by Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin to reshape the government's intervention in the Northern Territory, noting that alcohol and pornography bans and an income-management regime showed improvement in regional communities, albeit accompanied by a relocation of anti-social behaviour to the Territory's main towns. He joined Noel Pearson in deploring the "rotting effects of passive welfare provision" to Aboriginal Australians and in urging the extension of work-for-welfare programs.[3]
