Jonathan Green

Jonathan Green has been an editor, writer, commentator and broadcaster in a 40-year career as a journalist, beginning with a cadetship at The Canberra Times and taking in various Australian dailies: the Melbourne Herald, The Herald Sun, the Sunday Herald, The Sunday Age and 15 years at The Age. Jonathan left The Age in 2006 to edit Crikey. After three years there he moved to the ABC as founding editor of ABC Online’s The Drum. He is the author of Around Australia In 80 Days (2004) and The Year My Politics Broke (2013). He was editor of literary quarterly Meanjin between 2015 and 2022. He presents Blueprint for Living on ABC Radio National, tends his vegetables and writes the odd column and essay.