About the Author

Currently the Australia researcher for Human Rights Watch, Sophie McNeill has been an investigative reporter for Four Corners and the ABC's Middle East foreign correspondent. Sophie was twice awarded Australian Young TV Journalist of the Year and in 2010 won a Walkley for her investigation into the killing of five children in Afghanistan by Australian Special Forces soldiers. In 2015, she was nominated for a Walkley for her coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis. Sophie previously worked as a reporter for ABC's Foreign Correspondent and SBS's Dateline, and is a former host of triple j's current affairs program Hack. She is the author of We Can't Say We Didn't Know.