Career
He is currently the South Asia correspondent for The Australian newspaper. Greg Bearup started as a cadet at The Armidale Express in 1988. He then went on to work at The Inverell Times, The Newcastle Herald and The Sydney Morning Herald, working as chief police reporter, an investigative journalist and general reporter.
The screenplay for the film Suburban Mayhem was based on the feature "Death Surrounds Her".
In 2012 he moved to The Weekend Australian Magazine where he again was awarded a Walkley Award. In 2015 he moved to India to become the The Australian South Asia correspondent.
In 2004/5 he took two years" leave from his job at the magazine and worked for the on the elections for Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Iraqis living in Syria. He then spent six months in Bamyan, in the remote mountains of Central Afghanistan, working on the Afghan Parliamentary Elections in 2005.
During this time he also filed for The Guardian, The Times and the Christian Science Monitor.