Within 12 months of joining the ABC in 1966, 18 year old Jeff McMullen took his very first posting as a Foreign Correspondent to Papua New Guinea.

It was the beginning of a multi-decade career, which would see him cover the Watergate scandal in the United States, the coup in Chile, the famine in Eritrea and the genocide in Guatemala.

As part of our ongoing series of profiles, Jeff joined Tina Quinn in studio to talk about what began his attraction to far flung places, his love for storytelling and his desire to better understand humankind.

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