Author Biography: Journalist and consultant Richard Ogier’s commentary has appeared previously in Arena, as well as across the Fairfax and Murdoch media, ABC on-line and Crikey; The Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune; The Globe and Mail and Hill Times in Canada; Liberation in France; Handelsblatt in Germany and The Independent in the UK. Based in Munich since 2014, he was previously a research officer, then media and public affairs adviser at the Australian Embassy Paris. After childhood in Sydney, he completed a double politics major at Adelaide and Flinders Universities. He was co-editor of the Adelaide University newsweekly, On Dit, then a cadet and graded journalist at The Advertiser and national news-agency, Australian Associated Press.
