Peter Hartcher
Peter Hartcher is one of Australia's leading journalists. He is the political editor and international editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, positions he has held since 2003.
Hartcher is the paper's main commentator on national politics and international affairs.
He has broken a number of watershed stories, including the story that triggered Julia Gillard's leadership challenge against Kevin Rudd. He also broke the story that Kevin Rudd was challenging Julia Gillard three years later.
Hartcher has broken big stories in foreign policy. His front-page article on November 11, 2011, disclosed that Barack Obama and Julia Gillard had decided to create a permanent rotating deployment of 2,500 US Marines near Darwin.
He is also an author of four books. His latest book, published in 2011, is "The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made its Own Luck and Could Now Throw it All Away."
It has been described as a 21st century reply to Donald Horne's 1964 classic, The Lucky Country. It won the prestigious Ashurst prize for business literature in 2013.
His previous book, "To the Bitter End," was the inside account of the fall of John Howard and the rise of Kevin Rudd.
His 2005 book, Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing Seven Trillion Dollars, foresaw the collapse of the US housing market and the downturn that followed. His 1998 book, "The Ministry," explained the collapse of Japan's economy through the prism of the country's top policy institution, the Ministry of Finance.
Before taking up his current responsibilities, Hartcher worked for the Australian Financial Review as its Tokyo correspondent, Asia-Pacific Editor, and Washington correspondent.
He has won Australian journalism's highest accolade, the Gold Walkley Award, and the Citibank Award for business journalism. He is a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy.
He has long experience as a speaker. As a schoolboy representing Australia in 1981, he won the international final of the English Speaking Union's public speaking competition in London. He was the first Australian to do so and one of three Australians to win in three decades.
Peter Hartcher is one of Australia's leading journalists. He is the political editor and international editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, positions he has held since 2003.
Hartcher is the paper's main commentator on national politics and international affairs.
He has broken a number of watershed stories, including the story that triggered Julia Gillard's leadership challenge against Kevin Rudd. He also broke the story that Kevin Rudd was challenging Julia Gillard three years later.
Hartcher has broken big stories in foreign policy. His front-page article on November 11, 2011, disclosed that Barack Obama and Julia Gillard had decided to create a permanent rotating deployment of 2,500 US Marines near Darwin.
He is also an author of four books. His latest book, published in 2011, is "The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made its Own Luck and Could Now Throw it All Away."
It has been described as a 21st century reply to Donald Horne's 1964 classic, The Lucky Country. It won the prestigious Ashurst prize for business literature in 2013.
His previous book, "To the Bitter End," was the inside account of the fall of John Howard and the rise of Kevin Rudd.
His 2005 book, Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing Seven Trillion Dollars, foresaw the collapse of the US housing market and the downturn that followed. His 1998 book, "The Ministry," explained the collapse of Japan's economy through the prism of the country's top policy institution, the Ministry of Finance.
Before taking up his current responsibilities, Hartcher worked for the Australian Financial Review as its Tokyo correspondent, Asia-Pacific Editor, and Washington correspondent.
He has won Australian journalism's highest accolade, the Gold Walkley Award, and the Citibank Award for business journalism. He is a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy.
He has long experience as a speaker. As a schoolboy representing Australia in 1981, he won the international final of the English Speaking Union's public speaking competition in London. He was the first Australian to do so and one of three Australians to win in three decades.
