Sean Dorney is a Walkley Award-winning journalist who lived and worked in Papua New Guinea for twenty years. He is the author of three books: Papua New Guinea: People, Politics and History Since 1975 (Random House, 1990); The Sandline Affair: Politics and Mercenaries and the Bougainville Crisis (ABC Books, 1998); and The Embarrassed Colonialist (Penguin, 2016).

He is a non-resident fellow with the Lowy Institute Melanesia program.