Peter Cave

Peter Cave
Born	1952 Newcastle, New South Wales
Citizenship	Australian
Education	Newcastle Boys High School
Occupation	Foreign editor / journalist
Years active	1971–2012
Employer	In retirement

Peter Cave (born 1952) is an Australian journalist. He retired as Foreign Affairs Editor for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in July 2012.

Peter Cave was born in 1952 in Newcastle, New South Wales. He grew up in Waratah as one of four children of Frederick David and Betty Cave. His father was an industrial galvaniser and his mother was a nurse.

He attended Newcastle Boys High School.

At 18 he gained a cadetship with the then Australian Broadcasting Commission in Sydney. By 1974 he was working for Macquarie National News when he was flown into Darwin to cover the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy.

He then re-joined the ABC where his first major international assignment was the Coconut War in The New Hebrides. His first overseas posting was to Japan ( 1983–86).

He later became the chief correspondent for Europe and the Middle East based in London (1987–92) and then bureau chief in Washington(1996–97).

He returned to Australia to be the presenter of AM (ABC Radio) before becoming Foreign Affairs Editor.

In his career with the ABC he has also reported on the end of apartheid in South Africa, the Palestinian in the Occupied Territories, glasnost and perestroika in the former Soviet Union, the break-up of the former Yugoslavia and wars in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Lebanon, two Gulf wars, the fall of President Suharto in Indonesia,The civil unrest in East Timor, the first Bali Bombing, three Fijian Coups, the troubles in Northern Ireland, the 2011 Egyptian revolution, the 2011 Libyan civil war. and the uprising in Syria.

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