Peter FitzSimons

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Peter FitzSimons is a former Australian Rugby Union International or Wallaby and a current sports columnist and writer for The Sydney Morning Herald. He is also an established author with such books as Kokoda, which recounts the numerous battles between Australian and Japanese Troops on the Kokoda trail during World War II, biographies of former Australian Labor Party leader Kim Beazley, John Eales, Nancy Wake and Steve Waugh, and his latest book, Tobruk. FitzSimons also regularly appears on the Australian Foxtel programme, The Back Page, hosted by rugby league journalist Mike Gibson. He is a former student of Knox Grammar School at Wahroonga, Sydney

For the Saturday edition of the Sydney Morning Herald, FitzSimons writes a humorous column titled "The Fitz Files" which looks at all the happenings over the past seven days in sport.

FitzSimons is known for his robust personality and passion for the more community orientated nature of sport. He is married to TV personality Lisa Wilkinson, with whom he has three children.

In 2006 he began co-hosting a breakfast radio program with Mike Carlton on 2UE. He was brought onto the 2UE breakfast show by management in January 2006 in an attempt to boost the program's dwindling ratings. Mike Carlton was vocal in his opposition to having an on-air partner, but the move immediately paid dividends with an immediate audience increase. However, the "Mike and Fitz" breakfast show still trails a long way behind the current number one program on 2GB, hosted by Alan Jones who coincidentally coached FitzSimons at the Manly rugby club and when he was a Wallaby.^{[citation needed]}

FitzSimons is often joined on air by his wife, Seven Network presenter Lisa Wilkinson.