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Peter Hartcher is an Australian
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and the Political and International Editor of the ''
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''. He is also a visiting fellow at the
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, a Sydney-based foreign policy think tank.


Career

In 1981, while a student at
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in
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,
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, Hartcher was national winner of ''
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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 ''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 ''
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'' as Tokyo correspondent. Between 1995 and 2000 he was the ''Australian Financial Reviews 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
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. 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 covering
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's ailing leadership and the potential return to leadership of the former prime minister,
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.


Books

In 1998 Hartcher published his first book, ''The Ministry'' (), an exposé of the role played by Japan's
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in that country's economic collapse and subsequent stagnation. ''Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing 7 Trillion Dollars'' (), Hartcher's critique of
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's and the
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's management of the US economy through the years of
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, was published in 2004 to a mixed reception in the US, but was met with greater critical enthusiasm internationally. In 2007, Hartcher wrote ''Bipolar Nation: How to Win the 2007 Election'' in Black Inc's ''
Quarterly Essay ''Quarterly Essay'', founded in 2001, is an Australian periodical published by Black Inc., concentrating primarily on Australian politics in a broad sense. Printed in a book-like page size and using a single-column format, each issue features a ...
'' (), an analysis of the Australian electorate's collective psyche and what he argues is its peculiar susceptibility to manipulation. In 2009, Hartcher published ''To The Bitter End: The Dramatic Story of the Fall of John Howard and the Rise of Kevin Rudd'' (Crows Nest, NSW:Allen & Unwin. ). In 2011, Hartcher published ''The Sweet Spot: How Australia Made Its Own Luck – And Could Now Throw It All Away'' (Black Inc. ), for which in 2013 he was awarded the 2013 Ashurst Business Literature Prize. Hartcher's second ''Quarterly Essay'', "Red Flag: Waking Up to China's Challenge", was published in 2019. His 2021 book, ''Red Zone: China’s Challenge and Australia’s Future'', was longlisted for that year's Walkley Book Award.


References


External links


Hartcher's articles in ''Sydney Morning Herald''
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