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Phil Kafcaloudes
(born 12 January 1960) is an Australian journalist and novelist. Kafcaloudes was born in Sydney, Australia to Greek-Australian parents. After working in commercial radio in Sydney, he joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, becoming a long-running court reporter. He worked as a trainer in South Africa, Vietnam and across the Pacific, and after a stint as a political reporter in ABC TV, became the corporation’s National Journalism Trainer. From 2000 until 2005 he was a morning presenter on ABC NewsRadio In 2001 he studied how journalists are trained to deal with trauma under a Churchill Scholarship. Kafcaloudes now presents the breakfast program on the ABC’s international arm, Radio Australia. which has broadcasted from Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Cambodia and China and is regularly featured on ABC News Breakfast television. Kafcaloudes’ first novel, Someone Else’s War, which tells the true story of his maternal grandmother, a spy in Greece in World War 2, was published in August 2011. [edit]