Peter Michael St Clair Harvey (16 September 19442 March 2013) was an Australian journalist and broadcaster. Harvey was a long-serving correspondent and contributor with the

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from 1975 to 2013.

Career

Harvey studied his journalism cadetship with the Sydney newspaper ''

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'' and won a

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in 1964. He worked at radio stations

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and

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before moving to London and working for

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. He then went on to ''

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'' (where he received the British Reporter of the Year Award for a series of articles about the sale of confidential information) and the American ''

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'' magazine as a reporter in

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during the

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. Harvey changed to television when he joined the Nine Network in 1973 and served as its news director in the network's

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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

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voice became something of a catchphrase and was lampooned by numerous comedians, including Australian television's '' Full Frontal'' and ''

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''. Harvey also reported for the network from numerous international trips by

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s and was based in

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in 1990 with American forces at the commencement of the first

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. He transferred from Canberra to the network's Sydney headquarters in February 1997. In later years he contributed to ''

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'' and ''

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'', where he presented a weekly viewers' feedback segment. Harvey was awarded a

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in 2001, for service to Australian society in journalism.HARVEY, Peter Michael (Centenary Medal)
''It's an Honour'', 1 January 2001. He was posthumously inducted into the

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on 27 April 2014.

Illness and death

On 11 October 2012, Harvey announced that he had been diagnosed with

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. He stated that he had found out about his illness three weeks earlier when he was holidaying in

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

Personal life

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

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in Sydney. Adam's wife Eliza is a daughter of journalist

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, from her first marriage with Tim Blue.Waltzing More Than Matilda
Retrieved 26 March 2015 In a 2008 interview, Harvey stated, "I believe very strongly in God and Jesus Christ, but not so much on organised religion. I had a boarding school knock that out of me."

References

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