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Nicholas Charles Cater is a British-born Australian journalist and author who writes on culture and politics. He is a columnist for ''

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'' newspaper.

Early life and education

Cater was born in

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, and grew up in Hythe near Southampton. His parents were teachers. He graduated from the

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with an honours degree in sociology in 1980 and drove laundry vans for a year before joining the

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as a trainee studio manager.

Career

He worked as a producer in the London bureau of Australia's Channel Seven from 1983 to 1986 before rejoining the BBC as a journalist. He produced and directed the documentary ''Bridge Builders'' comparing the construction of the Tyne and

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s. Cater emigrated to Australia in July 1989, where he joined

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. He worked on '' The Advertiser'' in

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and became group Asia correspondent in 1993, where he was best known for tracking down the paedophile

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, reported on the front page of ''

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'' under the headline "Hello Dolly" on 17 April 1996. Cater worked in senior editorial roles at ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Telegraph'' in Sydney before joining ''

The Australian ''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition, ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.Bruns, Axel. "3.1. The active audience: Transforming journalism from gatekeeping to gatew ...

'' in 2004. He was appointed editor of ''The Weekend Australian'' in 2007. Cater left ''

The Australian ''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition, ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.Bruns, Axel. "3.1. The active audience: Transforming journalism from gatekeeping to gatew ...

'' in September 2013, but continued to write a weekly column for it. In 2014, Cater was appointed executive director of the

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. where he was instrumental in founding the Robert Menzies Institute a library, exhibition and research institute dedicated to the legacy of former prime minister Sir Robert Menzies, housed in the heritage Quad building on the University of Melbourne's Parkville campus. He co-curated of the Institute's permanent exhibition with Dr David Kemp. Cater is a regular commentator on

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, he hosts the weekly show ''Battleground'' on Alan Jones's ADH TV and co-hosts the weekly podcast ''The Six O'Clock Swill'' with Tim Blair.

Defamation case

In 2015, the Wagner family, of

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,

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, sued him for defamation over comments he made in broadcasts and in print about the cause of the floods in that town in 2011, in which 12 people died. Justice Peter Flanagan dismissed the complaints against Cater relating to comments he made on radio, however ''

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'' (Australia) settled out of court over comments Cater made in an article. In September 2019 a jury found that Cater had defamed the Wagners with comments he made in a television broadcast.

Publications

''The Lucky Culture''

''The Lucky Culture and the Rise of an Australian Ruling Class'' (2013) was described as a manifesto for a counter revolution against the age of political correctness by

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, who wrote "every 50 years or so Australians need a new book marking the end of an era and the start of a new one".

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"Australian Notes"
''

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'', 4 May 2013. Two Australian prime ministers launched the book at separate events.

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endorsed the book in Sydney and it was given a qualified endorsement by

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in Brisbane two months later. The former Australian prime minister,

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, described ''The Lucky Culture'' as a "beautifully written and perceptive… historical essay". Among others who greeted the book favourably are

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,

Geoffrey Blainey Geoffrey Norman Blainey (born 11 March 1930) is an Australian historian, academic, best selling author and commentator. He is noted for having written authoritative texts on the economic and social history of Australia, including '' The Tyranny ...

,

Miranda Devine Miranda Devine (born 1 July 1961) is an Australian columnist and writer, now based in New York City. She hosted ''The Miranda Devine Show'' on Sydney radio station 2GB until it ended in 2015. She has written columns for Fairfax Media newspapers ...

,

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, Janet Albrechtsen,

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and

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.

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and Peter Craven gave qualified endorsements. The former Labor leader

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was among the book's leading critics, writing, "It takes a fair bit to offend me these days but Nick Cater's new book ''The Lucky Culture and the Rise of an Australian Ruling Class'' has done the trick." The former Labor speechwriter

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called for the book to be pulped, calling it "a loathsome shallow Murdochist piece of Pommy filth". Other critics include the journalist Guy Rundle of ''

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'' and the historian

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.

Other works

Cater was editor of the 2006 book, ''The Howard Factor'', a review of the first decade of the

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government. He co-edited with Helen Baxendale a selection of the writings of Christopher Pearson under the title ''A Better Class of Sunset'' (2014), with introductions by

Tony Abbott Anthony John Abbott (; born 4 November 1957) is a former Australian politician who served as the 28th prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015. He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia. Abbott was born in Londo ...

and

Jack Snelling John James "Jack" Snelling (born 8 November 1972) is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Playford from the 1997 election until his retirement in 2018. Snelling left the Labo ...

. Cater contributed the chapter "Barons versus bureaucrats: the history of the grain trade in North America and Australia" to ''Only in Australia. The History, Politics and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism'' (2016). Cater co-authored ''The Road to Freedom: The Origins of Australia's Greatest Political Party'' (2019) with John Nethercote, and wrote the lead chapter in ''Australia Tomorrow'' (2022).

References

External links

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