Joe Grant

Background

He is the son of Stan Grant, an elder of the Wiradjuri people.

Career

Grant is of Aboriginal ancestry from the Wiradjuri. Grant is a Wiradjuri man from Griffith, New South Wales. Journalism Grant commenced university in New South Wales, then to the Australian National University and got a job as a copy boy at The Canberra Times.

He spent several years as a news presenter on the Australian Macquarie Radio Network and Seven and American Broadcasting Company television networks, along with a stint at Cable News Network International in Hong Kong and Beijing, responsible for the news network"s coverage of China.

In 2007, alongside news presenter Mary Kostakidis he took on the role of co-presenter of the one-hour 6.30 pm Business School World News Australia bulletin. In September 2007, Grant was announced presenter and producer of American Broadcasting Company Local Radio"s Indigenous programme Speaking Out which focuses on culture, lifestyle and political issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia.

Grant replaced Kerry Klimm and in 2008, Grant was replaced by Rhianna Patrick. In December 2007, Grant resigned from Business School World News Australia and was replaced by Anton Enus.

In 2008, Grant joined the World Bank as Senior Communications Officer, based in Sydney.

In 2009 Grant was appointed United Arab Emirates correspondent for Cable News Network. Based in Cable News Network"s new Abu Dhabi news-gathering and production centre, Grant covers stories from both the United Arab Emirates and the surrounding region and hosts Prism. Grant returned to Australia in 2013 and hosted a nightly late night news program NewsNight for Sky News Australia, which aired weeknights at 11pm. From 2014 he started hosting Sky News Australia"s Reporting Live with Stan Grant at 6pm, a nightly news program reporting on the serious news stories of the day.

In April he hosted Crimes that Shook Australia, a six-part television drama series broadcast on FOXTEL. In 2016, Grant will host a nightly news bulletin on NITV titled The Point with Stan Grant.

= The Tears of Strangers = Talking To My Country Stan Grant is an of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation.

Achievements

• In 1994, as host of the Seven Network current affairs program Real Life he won the Logie Award for Most Popular Current Affairs Program.

Politics

In 2013, Grant published a memoir, The Tears of Strangers, which details the political and social changes of Indigenous Australians over the period of 40 years, focusing particularly on generations of the Wiradjuri people. In a review for The Saturday Paper, Talking To My Country was described as "Australia viewed from the riverbank on the edge of town. Great affection mixed with discomfort about “Advance Australia Fair”.