Greste wants job back

FREED Australian journalist Peter Greste wants to return to work as a foreign correspondent and is confident his jailed colleagues will eventually be released.

After returning to Australia yesterday, Greste has no immediate plans, other than spending time with his family after 400 days in a Cairo jail, but ultimately he wants to return to reporting.

“I don’t want to give my job up. I’m a correspondent, it’s what I do,” he said.

The confession elicited a groan — and firm warning — from his mother, Lois: “We are not going through this again!”

The Al Jazeera reporter made a jubilant return to Brisbane after his deportation from Egypt on Sunday and two days resting in Cyprus with his brother Michael. Meditation, a masters degree in international relations and memories of a holiday to the Whitsundays kept his spirits up in jail.

Colleagues Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed remain in jail after being convicted of broadcasting false news and aiding a terrorist organisation.

“Then (when the three were jailed), as now, we were confident of our position, of our innocence,” Greste said.