Hamish Macdonald is an award-winning journalist who has covered wars, disasters, and major world events. He is co-host of Global Roaming on ABC Radio National and The Project on Channel Ten.

Hamish has won numerous awards including – a Walkley for current affairs journalism in 2005, the EU-Qantas Journalism Prize and the Elizabeth O’Neill Journalism Award in 2024. Global Roaming was named Best News Podcast by Radio Today. He was also previously named Young Journalist of the Year by Britain's Royal Television Society. 

Hamish has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Libya and Ukraine, the nuclear disaster in Japan, uprisings in Hong Kong and Egypt, the London bombings and the rise of ISIS in Iraq.  Overseas, he has worked for Channel 4 News in the UK, Al Jazeera English, and America's ABC where he was International Affairs Correspondent. 

In 2016, Hamish became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and is Patron of the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation and Ambassador for Dementia Australia.