Jeff McMullen

Dr Jeff McMullen AM is a journalist, author and filmmaker. Best known from his work on television over the last fifty years, McMullen has been a foreign correspondent for Australian Broadcasting Corporation, reporter for Four Corners and Sixty Minutes, anchor of the 33-part issue series on ABC Television, Difference of Opinion and director of independent documentaries. He was awarded the United Nations Media Peace Prize for his trilogy of hour-long documentaries about conflicts in Central America. He made many forays behind the former USSR’s Iron Curtain including disclosure of the impacts of Russian nuclear tests in Kazakhstan.

Recent articles by Jeff McMullen

Best of 2025 - These are fighting words

Best of 2025 - These are fighting words

As political violence escalates in the United States, chaos is spreading and democracy itself is under threat. The words of anger, ill-considered and increasingly crude, are accelerant on the American bonfire.

These are fighting words

These are fighting words

As political violence escalates in the United States, chaos is spreading and democracy itself is under threat. The words of anger, ill-considered and increasingly crude, are accelerant on the American bonfire.

The risks of world war III

The risks of world war III

I have been thinking about the unthinkable. Maybe you have too?