From the Boxing Day tsunami to Iraq, journalist Dean Yates rarely stopped to process the events he reported. They caught up with him in a Melbourne hospital

Dean Yates was working in Reuters’ Jakarta newsroom on the night of 12 October 2002, when he took a call from a stringer in Bali. There had been a blast, the caller explained, with flaming cars and multiple victims.

“I can hear this screaming in the background,” Yates recalls 20 years later, “I can hear this noise.”

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