It’s no wonder Phil Smith knows how to spin a good yarn. His personal and professional life includes 25 years in military and civilian media, experiencing places, meeting people and living through events far removed from suburban Australia.

Phil is a graduate in Journalism and Media from Central Queensland University. An award winning journalist, he has filed stories from throughout South East Asia, Australia’s “Top End” and the South Pacific.

His credits include an ABC TV documentary on the rebuilding of East Timor. ABC radio broadcast his series of outback yarns, ‘Round The Traps’.

Phil has international magazine credits in aviation, travel and military publications.

Corporates, charities and churches have enjoyed a genuine story teller instead of the usual ‘guest speaker’.

As a Squadron Leader in the RAAF Specialist Reserve, he’s served as a Peace Keeper in East Timor and Bougainville. He’s also served on humanitarian operations in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.

Phil has trained and worked aboard aircraft carriers in the south pacific and bases near the Arctic.

He won a Prince of Wales Award that allowed him to spend time working in California with the US Marines and at Radio KGO San Francisco.

Critics and readers have enjoyed his thrillers Shooting Script, and Tiger Stripe.

He harbours an ambition to write for children and teens, following his voice over work on the ‘Noah’ series of educational CD Roms.

He lives in Queensland, Australia, near Lake Samsonvale with his wife and two daughters.