Michael Brissenden is a political and foreign correspondent for the ABC. He began his career in the 1980s covering Federal politics for the ABC radio current affairs programs AM and PM. He has since worked as host of AM, defence correspondent, 7.30 political editor and the ABC TV Current Affairs Washington correspondent. In 1994 he was posted to Moscow and subsequently Brussels as a correspondent for ABC radio and television. As a foreign correspondent, Michael covered many of the biggest international stories of the past two decades.