Larry Schwartz

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Larry Schwartz is a journalist, writer and poet. A former senior writer/reporter with The Age, he worked at Fairfax Media for nearly 25 years. He worked as a lecturer in journalism at Swinburne University for much of a decade, taught at Monash University and conducted workshops in media training for community groups. He has worked for The Sydney Morning Herald and was its Melbourne bureau chief before joining The Sunday Age shortly before its launch in the late 1980s. He migrated from South Africa in the early 1980s and has written extensively on migrant and refugee issues and the arts. A former reporter with The Manly Daily in Sydney, he is the author of an apartheid-era memoir, The Wild Almond Line, and a poetry collection, Padkos. He has degrees in the arts and journalism from the Universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch and completed a PhD at Swinburne University.