14 Facts About Peter Harvey

Peter Michael St Clair Harvey was an Australian journalist and broadcaster.

Peter Harvey studied his journalism cadetship with the Sydney newspaper The Daily Telegraph and won a Walkley Award in 1964.

Peter Harvey worked at radio stations 2UE and 2GB before moving to London and working for BBC Radio.

Peter Harvey then went on to The Guardian and the American Newsweek magazine as a reporter in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

Peter Harvey changed to television when he joined the Nine Network in 1975 and served as its news director in the network's Canberra bureau for many years.

Peter Harvey reported for the network from numerous international trips by Australian prime ministers and was based in Saudi Arabia in 1990 with American forces at the commencement of the first Gulf War.

Peter Harvey transferred from Canberra to the network's Sydney headquarters in February 1997.

Peter Harvey was awarded a Centenary Medal in 2001, for service to Australian society in journalism.

Peter Harvey was posthumously inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame on 27 April 2014 and the Australian Commercial Radio Hall of Fame in the same year.

On 11 October 2012, Peter Harvey announced that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Peter Harvey stated that he had found out about his illness three weeks earlier when he was holidaying in Venice with his wife.

On 2 March 2013, Peter Harvey died at North Shore Private Hospital in Sydney at the age of 68.

Peter Harvey was born and raised in Bellevue Hill near Bondi in Sydney.

Peter Harvey was married to Anne and had two children, Claire and Adam, who both went into careers in journalism.