Peter hartcher biography

Australian journalist

Peter Hartcher is an Australian journalist and the Political and International Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald.^[1] He is also a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute, a Sydney-based foreign policy think tank.

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Career

In 1981, while a student at Chevalier College in Burradoo, New South Wales, 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.^[2]

His career in journalism began the following year with a cadetship at the 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'