Ross Coulthart

Ross Coulthard.

Good to be here, Mark.

I live in the Southern Highlands, two hours south of Sydney, in the rolling green hills of the Highlands.

And what about in terms of your work, your investigative work?

I work as a special international correspondent for an American news network called News Nation, which is a rising national cable news network in the United States that

is taking on the CNNs and the Fox News.

It's a bit like CNN was in its early days, about 30 years ago.

And it's great fun being on the shop floor because they're really interested in challenging accepted truisms and they like long-form investigative journalism, which is how I've made a large part of my career.

I've always been naturally curious and inquisitive.

And I actually trained as a commercial lawyer.

I was a lawyer very briefly and complete failure at that.

And I realized I was far too nosy and more interested in following leads where they took me.

And I drifted into journalism largely because I was always interested in the other story.

I loved, as a boy, I didn't have the, I don't know, Bay City Rollers or Suzy Quatro on my wall.

Yeah.

I had the Sunday Times of London's Insight team investigations and the Guardian investigative team.

I was a huge fan of probing long-form investigative journalism that revealed scandals like the

The thalidomide scandal, the DC-10 door scandal, the Dimona nuclear reactor, how Israeli got the bomb.

All of these amazing stories that were done with essentially good old-fashioned foot leather, digging journalism.

Look, to be honest with you, a lot of it is, I think a lot of mainstream media is BS.