If it wasn't highly inappropriate or even offensive to say that a girl has balls, that's what you'd say about Alexandra Fisher.
It is however both offensive and inappropriate, so instead this young Walkley award winner should be described as a "gutsy, intrepid adventurer with a burning desire to tell stories that are too often under reported."
On Thursday Alex will pack her own camera equipment and fly to Africa to report on either Rhino poaching in South Africa or the plight of pygmes in the Congo. This trip comes after filming a story on child soldiers in Uganda 1999, and her Walkley award winning piece (for Young TV Journalist) on child sex trafficking in Mexico late last year.
Her decision to film stories in confronting locations on confronting topics springs from her belief that "journalism is about mind, spirit and determination," and despite her parents being a little apprehensive, Alex says "they've gotta deal with it. You've got to do these things while you're young, agile and spirited."
Alex's passion to tell under reported stories is at odds with her modesty - she doesn't see her brave adventures as anything to brag about, she just thinks "everybody is looking for their sense of purpose, and this is my way of finding mine."
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