17 Facts About Peter Cave

Peter Cave was born on 1952 and is an Australian journalist.

Peter Cave retired as Foreign Affairs Editor for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in July 2012.

Peter Cave was born in 1952 in Newcastle, New South Wales.

Peter Cave grew up in Waratah West as one of four children of Frederick David and Betty Cave.

Peter Cave's father was an industrial galvaniser and his mother was a nurse.

Peter Cave then re-joined the ABC where his first major international assignment was the Coconut War in The New Hebrides.

Peter Cave later became the chief correspondent for Europe and the Middle East based in London and then bureau chief in Washington.

Peter Cave returned to Australia to be the presenter of AM before becoming Foreign Affairs Editor.

Peter Cave has won six Walkley Awards, Australian journalism's most prestigious accolades.

Peter Cave was an ABC Radio reporter in Beijing in June 1989.

Peter Cave had been there for about a month interviewing the students, intellectuals and labour activists and had filed reports on "two half-hearted attempts" by the military to disperse the demonstrators and had a room with a balcony overlooking Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

Peter Cave won two awards for his reporting: the best radio news report award and the currents affairs award.

Peter Cave was "commended for outstanding journalism under particularly difficult circumstances".

Peter Cave was the London-based European correspondent for the ABC when he reported from Berlin on the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Peter Cave's coverage won him his third Walkley, this time for best news report.

Peter Cave was on assignment in Iraq for the ABC on the outskirts of Baghdad when he, his cameraman, Michael Cox, and the driver and translator, were ordered by armed masked men to approach their car: in the back seat was an American hostage, Thomas Hamill a civilian truck driver.

Peter Cave won two Walkley Awards for the story: one for the radio news report, another for his television news report.