Michael Duffy (Australian journalist)

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Michael Duffy is an Australian author and former journalist and broadcaster. He and his wife the artist Alex Snellgrove own the publishing company Duffy & Snellgrove, which published the first books by Peter Robb (Midnight in Sicily), Ashley Hay (The Secret), John Birmingham (He Died with a Felafel in His Hand) and Rosalie Ham (The Dressmaker). Other authors included Les Murray, Mungo MacCallum and John Olsen.^[1] The company stopped publishing new titles in 2005.

Duffy presented ABC Radio National's Counterpoint with Paul Comrie-Thomson^[when?]. Set up to provide some balance to the station's left-wing Late Night Live, Counterpoint went on to rate better than its source of inspiration. ^{[citation needed]}

Duffy has written four true crime books and the Sydney crime novels The Tower, The Simple Death and Drive By.^[2] He is now writing the Bella Greaves series of crime novels set in the Blue Mountains.^[3] The first is The Problem with Murder.^{[citation needed]}