Peter Hartcher
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9 August 1963 Sydney, Australia |
| Occupation | Journalist, author, columnist |
Peter Hartcher is an Australian journalist and the Political and International Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald. He is also a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute, a Sydney-based foreign policy think tank.
In 1981, while a student at Chevalier College in Burradoo, NSW, Hartcher was national winner of the Sydney Morning Herald's Plain English Speaking competition and won a trip to England, where he won the international final the following year.
His career in journalism began the following year 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 he accepted a job with the Australian Financial Review as Tokyo correspondent.
Between 1995 and 2000 he was the Australian Financial Review's Asia-Pacific Editor. His 1996 investigative series uncovering the secret negotiation of a security treaty between Australia and Indonesia won the Australian journalism award, the Gold Walkley. He then went to the US for three years, where he was the Washington DC correspondent. In 1998, he was the recipient of the Citibank Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 2004, Hartcher rejoined the Sydney Morning Herald in his current capacity.
In late 2012 and early 2013, Hartcher wrote several columns critical of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's leadership and advocated that the former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd should return to the leadership.
In 1998 Hartcher published his first book, The Ministry (), an exposé of the role played by Japan's Ministry of Finance in that country's economic collapse and subsequent stagnation.
Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing 7 Trillion Dollars (), Hartcher's critique of Greenspan's and the Federal Reserve Board's management of the US economy through the years of irrational exuberance, was published in 2004 to a mixed reception in the US, but was met with greater critical enthusiasm internationally.
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