Michael Brooke was born in Sydney on 22 December 1962, and began his working life in journalism at the Sydney Daily Telegraph—the same newspaper that once employed Cyril Pearl, whose 1978 account helped keep the Bermagui Mystery alive in the Australian imagination.
Michael’s career carried him through South East Asia, where he spent more than a decade as a reporter and earned his reputation at The Bangkok Post before turning to freelance work. His work has been shaped by independence, personal freedom and the stubborn necessity of asking difficult questions—even when the answers remain hidden
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