Mr Peter FitzSimons AM
Peter FitzSimons is a well respected columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald. He has played rugby for Australia, co-hosted radio shows, interviewed famous people from around the globe and written a multitude of best-selling books. Peter is the biographer not only of World Cup winning Wallaby captains, Nick Farr-Jones and John Eales, but also former Opposition Leader Kim Beazley, boxer Les Darcy, aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and war heroine Nancy Wake. In 2001, he was Australia’s biggest selling non-fiction author, and duplicated that feat in 2004, with his book on Kokoda. In 2011, he released Batavia and Mawson. Peter has interviewed every Australian Prime Minister from Gough Whitlam through to Julia Gillard. He is married to Today Show co-host Lisa Wilkinson and they have three children.