Peter Lloyd (born 1966) is a journalist and was senior producer for the

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's news and current affairs program ''

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''. He was previously the ABC's South Asia correspondent based in New Delhi, from where he reported across all ABC national and international radio and television news and current affairs programs. Lloyd was due to return to Australia to co-host ''

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'' with

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from October 2008, but he was arrested in Singapore on drugs charges. He served six months of a ten-month jail sentence. In April 2010, Lloyd was re-hired by the ABC for his current ''

'' role.

Education

Educated at St Gregory's College in Campbelltown, he graduated as dux, before going on to earn a bachelor's degree in journalism at

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in Bathurst.

Career

Lloyd worked for the

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and two Australian commercial television networks in varying roles from presenter to program producer before working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Twice nominated for national awards, Lloyd covered news and events from

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and

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. Between 2002 and mid-2006, he was based in

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, covering the South East Asia region for the ABC. Reporting across the ten

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states, Lloyd earned praise for distinguished reporting of the

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and

2005 Bali bombings The 2005 Bali bombings were a series of terrorist attacks that occurred on 1 October 2005 in Bali, Indonesia. Bombs were detonated at two sites in Jimbaran Beach resort and in Kuta away, both in south Bali. The attacks claimed the lives of ...

and

2004 Indian Ocean tsunami On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+07:00, UTC+7), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 struck with an epicenter, epicentre off the west coast of Aceh in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The Submarine earthquake, undersea ...

disaster.

Drug arrest

On 18 July 2008, Singaporean police arrested Lloyd and charged him with possession of 0.8 grams of methamphetamine (the drug '

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'), one smoking pipe and six syringes. The Singaporean police said that his urine tested positive for amphetamines and he was being investigated for trafficking a controlled drug. Lloyd was released on bail of S$60,000, posted by his partner Mohamed Mazlee bin Abdul Malik. In November 2008, Singapore's Attorney-General dropped the harsher trafficking charge against Lloyd, leaving him to face four lesser charges. On 2 December 2008, Lloyd was sentenced to 10 months in jail after pleading guilty to three of the charges and on 23 June 2009 was released early for good conduct. Lloyd returned to work for the ABC as a senior journalist on ''

'' in April 2010. He has recounted his experiences with the Singaporean justice system in a book, ''Inside Story'', published in October 2010.

References

External links

Peter Lloyd biography
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