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Peter Harvey is an Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n television journalist
Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
, currently employed with the Australian Nine Network
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
’s 60 Minutes program. Harvey is also a regular contributor on Today's
Today (Australian TV program)

Today, often referred to as The Today Show, is an Australian news program. The show is broadcast live by the Nine Network on weekday and Sunday mornings....
 Hot Topics segment.

Harvey studied his journalism cadetship with the Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
 newspaper The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph (Australia)

The Daily Telegraph is a tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales and country New South Wales , by Nationwide News, part of News Corporation....
, and in 1964 received a Walkley Award for his work (the principle Australian awards for Journalism.) He later worked with London
London

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’s The Guardian
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 newspaper (where he received the British Reporter of the Year Award) and with the American Newsweek
Newsweek

Newsweek is an United States weekly newsmagazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally....
 magazine as a reporter in Vietnam
Vietnam

Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
 during the Vietnam War.

Harvey commenced his employment with the Nine Network in 1975 and was the News Director in the network’s Canberra
Canberra

Canberra is the List of Australian capital cities of Australia. With a population of over 340,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth largest Australian city overall....
 bureau for many years.






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Peter Harvey is an Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n television journalist
Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
, currently employed with the Australian Nine Network
Nine Network

The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian Television broadcasting in Australia based in Willoughby, New South Wales, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney....
’s 60 Minutes program. Harvey is also a regular contributor on Today's
Today (Australian TV program)

Today, often referred to as The Today Show, is an Australian news program. The show is broadcast live by the Nine Network on weekday and Sunday mornings....
 Hot Topics segment.

Harvey studied his journalism cadetship with the Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
 newspaper The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph (Australia)

The Daily Telegraph is a tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales and country New South Wales , by Nationwide News, part of News Corporation....
, and in 1964 received a Walkley Award for his work (the principle Australian awards for Journalism.) He later worked with London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
’s The Guardian
The Guardian

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 newspaper (where he received the British Reporter of the Year Award) and with the American Newsweek
Newsweek

Newsweek is an United States weekly newsmagazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally....
 magazine as a reporter in Vietnam
Vietnam

Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
 during the Vietnam War.

Harvey commenced his employment with the Nine Network in 1975 and was the News Director in the network’s Canberra
Canberra

Canberra is the List of Australian capital cities of Australia. With a population of over 340,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth largest Australian city overall....
 bureau for many years. This included being the chief Nine Network reporter in Canberra during the Whitlam Dismissal
Australian constitutional crisis of 1975

The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, commonly called The Dismissal, refers to the events that culminated with the removal of Australia then Prime Minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, by Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr and appointing the List of Australian Leaders of the Opposition Malcolm Fraser as Caretaker governm...
 of 1975.

It was from this work, and his regular political reporting on evening news bulletins around the country, that his sonorous closing line "Peter Harvey [pause] Canberra" and deep baritone
Baritone

Baritone is a type of European classical music male voice type that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice....
 voice became something of a catchphrase and was lampooned by numerous comedians, including Australian television’s Full Frontal
Full Frontal (TV series)

Full Frontal was an Australian sketch comedy series which debuted in 1993. The show first aired on the Seven Network on May 13, 1993, and finished on September 22, 1997....
.

Harvey has also reported for the network in numerous trips by Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n Prime Minister
Prime minister

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s around the world, and was based in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA , is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south....
 in 1990 with American forces at the commencement of the first Gulf War
Gulf War

"Persian Gulf War" and "First Gulf War" redirect here. For other uses, see Persian Gulf War .The Persian Gulf War was a United Nations-authorized military conflict between Iraq and a Coalition of Gulf War from 34 nations commissioned with expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait of Kuwait in August 1990....
.

Harvey transferred to the network’s Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
 studios in February 1997 and, in addition to news reporting, also reports and presents with the 60 Minutes program in Australia.

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