Peter Hartcher
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| Born | August 9, 1963  Sydney, Australia |
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| Occupation | Journalist, author, columnist |
| Website www.hartcher.com |
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Peter Hartcher is the Political and International Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia's highest circulation daily broadsheet. He is also Chair Editor of The Diplomat, an Australian foreign affairs journal, and a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Politics in Sydney.
Hartcher is widely regarded as Australia's leading political commentator. His thorough analysis and impartial stance has earned him praise across the political spectrum and he was cited as one of the most objective opinion-setters in the country in a 2007 independent survey of Australian pundits.[1]
[edit] Career
Hartcher's career in journalism began in 1982 with a cadetship at the Sydney Morning Herald. In 1986, he took up his first overseas posting as the newspaper's Tokyo correspondent.
On his return to Australia in 1988, Hartcher was made Chief Political Correspondent, a position he held until 1991, when the Herald's then controlling shareholder, Conrad Black, sought his resignation, at the behest of former Federal Liberal Party leader, John Hewson. In response, Hartcher accepted a job with the Australian Financial Review as Tokyo correspondent.
Between 1995 and 2000 he was the newspaper's Asia-Pacific Editor and then went to the US for three years where he was the Washington DC correspondent. In 2004, Hartcher rejoined the Sydney Morning Herald in his current capacity.
[edit] Books and awards
In 1981, while still at school, Hartcher won the English Speaking Union's international public speaking competition in London. He is the first and only Australian to do so.
Hartcher's 1996 investigative series uncovering the secret negotiation of a security treaty between Australia and Indonesia won Australia's most prestigious journalism award, the Gold Walkley.
In 1998, Hartcher was the recipient of the Citibank Award for Excellence in Journalism and, to international critical acclaim, he published his first book, The Ministry, an exposé of the role played by Japan's Finance Ministry in that country's economic collapse and subsequent stagnation.
Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing 7 Trillion Dollars, Hartcher's damning indictment of the Federal Reserve Board's mismanagement of the US economy through the years of irrational exuberance, was published in 2004 to a mixed reception in the US, where Greenspan retained his iconic status, but was met with greater critical enthusiasm internationally.
In 2007, Hartcher wrote Black Inc's first Quarterly Essay for the year, Bipolar Nation: How to Win the 2007 Election, an analysis of the Australian electorate's collective psyche and its peculiar susceptibility to manipulation. It was the best-selling Quarterly Essay in the publication's history.
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