Nick Cater

Nicholas Charles Cater (born 7 July 1958) is a British-born Australian journalist and author who writes on culture and politics. He is a columnist for The Australian newspaper. Cater’s book The Lucky Culture has been compared to Donald Horne’s The Lucky Country for its substance and influence.

Cater was born in Billericay, Essex, and grew up in Hythe near Southampton. His parents were teachers. He graduated from the University of Exeter with an honours degree in sociology in 1980 and drove laundry vans for a year before joining the BBC as a trainee studio manager. He worked as a producer in the London bureau of Australia’s Channel Seven from 1983 to 1986 before rejoining the BBC as a journalist. He produced and directed the documentary Bridge Builders comparing the construction of the Tyne and Sydney Harbour Bridges.

Cater emigrated to Australia in July 1989 where he joined Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Australia, then News Limited. He worked on The Advertiser in Adelaide and became group Asia correspondent in 1993, where he was best known for tracking down the paedophile Robert 'Dolly' Dunn, reported on the front page of The Daily Telegraph under the headline "Hello Dolly" on 17 April 1996.

Cater worked in senior editorial roles at The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph in Sydney before joining The Australian in 2004. He was appointed editor of The Weekend Australian in 2007.

Cater left The Australian in September 2013, but continues to write a weekly column for it.

In 2014, Cater was appointed executive director of the Menzies Research Centre. He has co-edited with Helen Baxendale a selection of the writings of Christopher Pearson under the title A Better Class of Sunset, with introductions by Tony Abbott and Jack Snelling. He has contributed "Barons versus bureaucrats: the history of the grain trade in North America and Australia" to Only in Australia. The History, Politics and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2016, which he has co-authored with Henry Ergas and Geoffrey Blainey (among others).

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