Stan Gran is a Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi man. He is a public intellectual who has worked as a journalist, presenter, filmmaker, and author. As a journalist he has reported from more than 80 countries, won a Walkley Award, US Peabody Award and a Logie Award. As a writer he has published several books including Talking to My Country, The Queen is Dead and With the Falling of the Dusk. From 2022-2023, Grant hosted the ABC’s current affairs panel program Q&A. He currently writes a column for The Saturday Paper and is soon to complete his Doctor of Theology with Charles Sturt University.