Awards
Canadian Award for Journalistic Merit for 1990
Association of Mining and Exploration Companies’ Australian Press Award, 1994
Graham Perkin Award for Australian Journalist of the Year for 1995
Walkley Awards, for Asia-Pacific coverage, for 1997 and 2007
Fellowship of the Australian Institute of International Affairs in 2015
OBE (Officer of the British Empire) on the recommendation of the Government of Papua New Guinea in 2015, for services to journalism and to the training of Papua New Guinean journalists, and to the Anglican Church of PNG