Peter Michael St Clair Harvey (1944 - 2013)

Born 16 Sep 1944 in Bellevue Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Died 2 Mar 2013 at age 68 in St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia

Biography

Peter Harvey is Notable.

Peter Harvey was born in New South Wales, Australia

Peter Harvey was an Australian journalist and broadcaster. He was a long-serving correspondent and contributor with the Nine Network from 1975 to 2013.

Peter Michael St Clair Harvey was born on 16th September 1944 at Bellevue Hill, New South Wales, Australia.

He completed his journalism cadetship with Sydney's The Daily Telegraph and won a Walkley Award in 1964. He then worked at radio stations 2UE and 2GB before moving to London and working for BBC Radio. Returning to print news he worked at The Guardian, where he received the British Reporter of the Year Award for a series of articles about the sale of confidential information, and the American Newsweek magazine as a reporter in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

He returned to Sydney and ventured into television, joining the Nine Network in 1973. He served as its news director in the network's Canberra bureau for many years. One of his first major stories was the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in November 1975. It was from this work, and his regular political reporting on Nine's flagship nightly news bulletins, that his sonorous closing line of "Peter Harvey, Canberra" and deep baritone voice became something of a catchphrase and was lampooned by numerous comedians, including Australian television's Full Frontal and The Late Show.

Peter reported for the network on many international trips accompanying Australian prime ministers and was based in Saudi Arabia in 1990 with American forces at the commencement of the first Gulf War.

He transferred from Canberra to the network's Sydney headquarters in February 1997. In later years he contributed to Today and 60 Minutes, where he presented a weekly viewers' feedback segment.

Peter was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 for service to Australian society in journalism. ^[1]

He passed away as a result of pancreatic cancer, aged 68 years, on 2nd March 2013 in the North Shore Private Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales. ^[2]

In a 2008 interview, Peter stated, "I believe very strongly in God and Jesus Christ, but not so much on organised religion." ^[3]

He was posthumously inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame on 27th April 2014. ^[4]

He was married to Anne and had two children, Claire and Adam, who both went into careers in journalism. Claire is deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph newspaper and Adam is a reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney.

See also

• Wikipedia profile: Peter Harvey; accessed 19 Jul 2019.
  

Sources

1. ↑ Australian Honours: Peter Michael Harvey; accessed 19 Jul 2019
2. ↑ Daily Telegraph 2 Mar 2013: Baker, Jordan, Tributes flow for TV news legend Peter Harvey; accessed 19 Jul 2019
3. ↑ Time Out Sydney, 2 Sep 2008
4. ↑ Wikipedia: Logie Hall of Fame; accessed 19 Jul 2019