Andrew Basinski, although intending to be a primary school teacher, worked as a broadcaster and a journalist (in Polish and English) and as editor of Kurier Zachodni [Western Courier], a monthly Australian Polish language magazine on social and cultural issues. He received the Walter Schäuble Ethnic Broadcasting Silver Award in 1988 for his radio program in Polish on Radio 6NR and 6CCR (100FM). He has also worked in Western Australia as an interviewer for Polish Radio Kurier, 6EBA-FM.