Background
Davis was born in Suva, Fiji, the elder son of the Rev Peter Davis, who served as President of the Methodist Church in Fiji and, later, New South Wales Moderator of the Uniting Church in Australia.
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Graham Davis
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He spent his early years on the island of Lakeba in the Lau Group and attended Buca District School, Savusavu, and Drasa Avenue School, Lautoka, before being sent to Newington College, Sydney (1966–1971) as a boarder.
Career
He hosts a weekly Australian television program, The Great Divide on the Southern Cross Austereo television Network, and is a consultant to the Washington-based global communications company Qorvis on its Fiji accountant Davis worked as a journalist in Britain and Australia for the British Broadcasting Corporation (External Services/World Service News), American Broadcasting Company and the Macquarie Network before moving to television as a news reporter with the Seven Network in Sydney in 1981. Davis is a columnist for the Fiji Sun, the country"s biggest selling newspaper (wwwfijisuncomfj).He has written regularly for The Australian and his work has also appeared in The Bulletin, The Sydney Morning Herald, Herald Sun and the Fiji Times.
He also writes the blog, Grubsheet Feejee.
Davis has judged the Walkley and Qantas New Zealand Media and was on the national panel that reviewed the Australian Journalists" Code of Ethics.
Achievements
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He is the winner of a number of awards including the 1995 Walkley Award for Best Investigative Report for a report on commercial infiltration of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and a 1994 Logie Award for a story "Ships of Shame", on the parlous state of world shipping. His 2002 report, Silent Witnesses - which detailed cases of child abuse in the Jehovah"s Witnesses - won a New York Festivals Award in the United States. In 2004 he gained an award from the Australian Council of Deans of Education for the Sunday program "Cash Cow Campuses", which exposed a plagiarism scandal at the University of Newcastle, Also in 2004, he won a National Press Club Excellence in Health Award for the Sunday investigation "Killer Hospitals". He also holds a Michael Daley Award for science reporting.
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Australia
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Walkley award; the First Australians Business ; Logie award He is the winner of a number of awards including the 1995 Walkley Award for Best Investigative Report for a report on commercial infiltration of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and a 1994 Logie Award for a story "Ships of Shame", on the parlous state of world shipping. His 2002 report, Silent Witnesses - which detailed cases of child abuse in the Jehovah's Witnesses - won a New York Festivals Award in the US. In 2004 he gained an award from the Australian Council of Deans of Education for the Sunday program "Cash Cow Campuses", which exposed a plagiarism scandal at the University of Newcastle, Also in 2004, he won a National Press Club Excellence in Health Award for the Sunday investigation "Killer Hospitals". He also holds a Michael Daley Award for science reporting.Walkley award; the First Australians Business ; Logie award He is the winner of a number of awards including the 1995 Walkley Award for Best Investigative Report for a report on commercial infiltration of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and a 1994 Logie Award for a story "Ships of Shame", on the parlous state of world shipping. His 2002 report, Silent Witnesses - which detailed cases of child abuse in the Jehovah's Witnesses - won a New York Festivals Award in the US. In 2004 he gained an award from the Australian Council of Deans of Education for the Sunday program "Cash Cow Campuses", which exposed a plagiarism scandal at the University of Newcastle, Also in 2004, he won a National Press Club Excellence in Health Award for the Sunday investigation "Killer Hospitals". He also holds a Michael Daley Award for science reporting.