Dust of Uruzgan

Iain (Fred) Campbell Smith is is an Australian diplomat, singer/songwriter and comedian. In July 2009 he was the first DFAT civilian to be posted to Uruzgan as part of the second Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force. He served most of his 18-month tour of the province living and working on the Multinational Base in Tarin Kowt and at a Forward Operating Base in the Chora Valley.

In 2016, Allen & Unwin published Smith's book The Dust of Uruzgan. The book, which Smith wrote over an eight-month period between 2015 and 2016, is a memoir of detailing his experiences as a diplomat in Uruzgan, Afghanistan. Fred is the 2021 recipient of the 2021 ACT Chief Minister's Rotary Peace Award.