Leith, Denise

Denise Leith has taught international relations, Middle East politics, Australian foreign policy and Australian politics at Sydney's Macquarie University. Her first book The Politics of Power: Freeport in Suharto's Indonesia was published in 2002. Her second book, Bearing Witness: The Lives of War Correspondents and Photojournalists (2004), looked at the world of war, disease and famine through the eyes and voices of the world top war correspondents and photojournalists. In 2005, as part of the committee of International PEN, she was awarded the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Community Award for work with writers held in detention. Denise currently lives on Sydney's Northern Beaches and writes and teaches part time at university.;