Academy Fellow

Stan Grant is Professor of Journalism at Monash University and Chair of Yindyamarra Nguluway at Charles Sturt University. He was formerly ABC's Global Affairs and Indigenous Affairs Analyst.

He is one of Australia's most respected and awarded journalists, with more than 30 years experience in radio and television news and current affairs. Stan has a strong reputation for independence and integrity and has interviewed international political and business leaders, including our own prime ministers and senior ministers.

Prior to taking up his latest role Stan served for a decade at a Senior International Correspondent for CNN in Asia and the Middle East, broadcasting to an audience of millions around the world.

He has interviewed numerous world leaders including Nelson Mandela, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Condoleezza Rice, Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, Shimon Peres, Bill Clinton, and Australian Prime Ministers Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott, and Malcolm Turnbull.

Stan has won numerous international and Australian awards including a Peabody Award, Columbia University Alfred I. duPont award, four times winner of the prestigious Asia TV awards including best news story and reporter of the year, twice winner of the coveted Australian Walkley Award, as well as a TV Logie award, GQ Magazine agenda setter of the year and an Australian Academy of Arts Cinema and Television Award (Australia's Oscars) as male TV presenter of the year.

Stan is an award winning and best selling author of several books and has contributed articles to many major Australian newspapers, magazines and journals.

Professor of Journalism, Monash University

Chair of Yindyamarra Nguluway, Charles Sturt University 

Ambassador, Australian Indigenous Education Foundation

• Walkley Documentary Award (2019).
• Australian Academy of Arts Cinema and Television (AAACT) Award, best feature documentary (2019).
• Australian Screen Producers Award, best documentary feature (2019).
•  International Oceanian Documentary Film Festival (FIFO) jury prize, best feature documentary. Audience prize, best feature documentary (2019).
• Silver medal, International Sports Press Awards (2019).
• Indigenous Trailblazer Award, Hawaii International Film Festival (2019).
• Australian Council of Educational Leadership, media award (2019).
• Melbourne International Film Festival best documentary award ‘The Australian Dream’ (2019).
• Walkley Book Award (2016).
• Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism: Best Coverage of Indigenous Affairs (2015)
• Australian Academy of Arts Cinema and Television (AAACT) Award, best male TV presenter (2014).
• Australian TV Logie Award – Most Popular Current Affairs Program (1994)
• 2 x Peabody Award – Best News Coverage.
• Alfred I Du Pont Award – Best News Coverage.
• 4 x Asia TV Awards. 
• Australian Heritage Society book award.

2023 – The Queen is Dead: Time for a Public Reckoning, Harper Collins.

2021 – On Thomas Keneally, Black Inc.

2021 – With the Falling of the Dusk, Harper Collins.

2019 – Australia Day, Harper Collins.

2019 – On Identity, Melbourne University Press.

2016 – Talking to my Country, Harper Collins.

2016 – Quarterly Essay ‘The Australian Dream: Blood, history and becoming’, Black Inc.

2001 – The Tears of Strangers, Harper Collins.