Ben Bohane on covering the forgotten wars in Australia’s backyard
Australian photojournalist Ben Bohane has spent more than two decades documenting conflict and daily life in Australia's backyard ? the Asia -Pacific. Photo: Ben Bohane
Australian photojournalist Ben Bohane has been covering the Asia-Pacific for more than 25 years but is shocked by how the region so close to Australia is so "woefully underreported on".
“It’s Australia’s backyard … Australians are too obsessed with the big sexy stories of Middle East conflict, Trump-istan and European decline instead of important issues in our own backyard … there have been several conflicts going on … Bougainville, Timor and West Papua,” Bohane says…………………
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