Robert Garran Robert Garran has been writing about foreign policy, politics and economics for more than 20 years. He has worked as foreign affairs and defence writer and Japan correspondent for the Australian, has written for the London Econoist, the Melbourne Age, the Australian Financial Review and the Diplomat and has worked as a political advisor for the Australian Labor Party. He is the author of Tigers Tamed: the end of the Asian miracle, and co-author with Don Greenlees of Deliverance: the inside story of East Timor's fight for freedom. Read More Read Less