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Henry Zwartz is an Australian and New Zealand journalist born in Paddington, Sydney. He is also a keen drummer and photographer.

Career

After graduating from The University of Sydney, Zwartz worked in Myanmar and Thailand with ethnic news media organisation Karen News, focusing on issues along the Thai-Burma border including refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), landmines, land grabs, human rights abuses, and intercommunal armed violence. He also worked with The Bangkok Post and Foreign Policy magazine while based overseas, and studied Thai.

Zwartz returned to Australia to work with commercial media, working on A Current Affair, and as a journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald.

He moved to Tasmania in 2017 to work with the ABC as a video journalist based in the state's north west. For his work uncovering the scale of historic sexual abuse of boys and girls in several institutions in Tasmania, he was awarded the 2019 Young Walkley for Community and Regional Affairs. Those stories sparked more than two dozen legal cases. He was also awarded two Tasmania state media awards for his investigative work looking into the salmon farming industry and the drug trade. He was also a 2020 finalist Tasmanian Journalist of the Year.

In 2020, Zwartz drove from Tasmania to Darwin to take up a new role with the ABC NT. His work with colleague Lauren Roberts examining restrictive laws, prohibiting the identification of sexual assault victims even if they wished to come forward publicly, garnered both the 2020 Pete Davies Memorial Campaigning Journalism Award. Those laws have since been changed.

He currently lives in Sydney, and works as a reporter with SBS World News.

Personal life

Zwartz's sister is the acclaimed singer-songwriter Martha Marlow. Both his parents are musicians. His mother Jane is a (now retired) singer, and his father Jonathan is an ARIA-award winning Jazz double-bass player and composer.