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Andrew Male has been a journalist in newspapers, on television and on radio for more than fifteen years. He spent much of his childhood at Wilmington in the Flinders Ranges, Burra and Snowtown in the Mid-North of South Australia, Port Augusta and Wallaroo. His father was a stock agent for Elders and the family moved regularly.

Male's journalism has included long engagements with News Limited, Channel 10, ABC TV News and the Stateline current affairs programme. His work has appeared in the Adelaide Review, the Australian, the Advertiser, the City Messenger and Lachlan Colqhoun's Post Taste magazine. He has written from New York, Rome, Venice and South East Asia. His work was formally recognised when he became the inaugural winner of the Roma Mitchell Award for Excellence in Crime Reporting in 1996. In 2001 he became regional programme manager for ABC 639 and 1485 in the North and West and divides his time between the Flinders Ranges, the Yorke Peninsula and the West Coast.