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Michael Brissenden is one of the ABC's most experienced journalists. He has been a political journalist and foreign correspondent for the ABC since 1987.
He began his career covering Federal politics and has been a correspondent in Moscow, Brussels and Washington.
Michael covered many of the biggest international stories of the 1990's and early 2000's from all corners of the globe. From the Pacific to Europe, the US and the Middle East including the various Balkans wars, the conflict in Chechnya, the fall of Suharto in Indonesia, the build up to the Iraq war and the first term of the Obama administration in the US.
He was the political editor for the 7.30 Report in Canberra from 2003 to 2009 and he was most recently the ABC's Defence and National Security Correspondent.
