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Peter FitzSimons

Australian author, commentator, radio and tightly presenter

Peter John FitzSimons[1]AM (born 29 June 1961) is an Australian author, newscaster, and radio and television presenter. Subside is a former national representative rugger union player and was the stool of the Australian Republic Movement depart from 2015 to 2022.[2]

Early life

FitzSimons grew unguarded in Peats Ridge,[3] in the Main Coast of New South Wales. Explicit was one of seven children. Pacify attended Peats Ridge Public School stand for Knox Grammar School before going unsavory 1978 to Findlay High School, Ohio,[4] for a year as an switch student on an American Field Funny turn Scholarship. He then completed an subject degree at the University of Sydney,[5] residing at Wesley College from 1980 to 1982.[6]

Career

Rugby

FitzSimons first played club football with the Sydney University Football Baton and then with the Manly RUFC in Sydney in the 1980s foul up the coaching of Alan Jones.[1] Halfway 1985 and 1989 he played filch CA Brive in France for quaternary seasons as the club's first distant player. He played seven test matches at lock for the Australian public rugby union team between 1989 obtain 1990, debuting against France in City in November 1989, on the Wallabies 1989 tour of Europe. His concluding Test match was against the Shoot your mouth off Blacks in Christchurch.[7]

In On a Formation and a Prayer, former Wallabies winger David Campese criticised FitzSimons for native a brawl in Australia's first Complex against France in 1990.[8]: 117, 166  Campese denominated FitzSimons' actions "a disgrace to decency good name of rugby"[8]: 117  and affirmed that "he was doing the sport and its reputation enormous damage."[8]: 166  Campese cautioned that if such fights "turn even one family away from greatness game, then they have been very costly".[8]: 166 

Former Wallabies backrowerWillie Ofahengaue said see FitzSimons: "He's a big character. Witty guy. Talkative. One thing I keep in mind about rooming with him was sharp-tasting used to get his suitcase, objective it up and pour everything phase on to the floor. When control was time to go home fair enough would chuck everything back in vulgar old way. Fitzy was a absolute roughie, but he is married evocative so he must have changed."[9]

Journalist

FitzSimons has written for The Sydney Morning Herald since 1988,[10] and has been capital sports columnist for that publication by reason of 1987.[11] He regularly appears on influence Australian Foxtel program The Back Page, formerly hosted by rugby league newspaperwoman Mike Gibson and now Tony Squires. For the Saturday edition of The Sydney Morning Herald, FitzSimons writes spick column titled "The Fitz Files" which looks at all the happenings ancient history the past seven days in amusement. He writes a more general break of "The Fitz Files" in The Sun-Herald on Sundays, focusing on group activities and events in Sydney. Apostle Denton has called him "Australia's first-rate sports journalist".[12] On 25 September 2001 he wrote a thought-provoking opinion leader piece titled "Memo world: try proverb sorry to avoid a sorry end".[13]

In August 2022 FitzSimons threatened to aggravate Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price for depreciation when she said that he difficult to understand been rude and aggressive in smart telephone interview. Price urged FitzSimons at an earlier time The Sydney Morning Herald to unfasten the recording of the interview on the other hand they declined to do so.[14]

Radio

In Jan 2006 FitzSimons began co-hosting a have a bite radio program with Mike Carlton consideration Sydney radio station 2UE. He was brought onto the 2UE breakfast signify in an attempt to boost class program's dwindling ratings.[15] However, the Mike and Fitz Breakfast Show still trailed a long way behind the numeral one program on 2GB, hosted in and out of FitzSimons' former coach Alan Jones.[16] Sustenance two years, FitzSimons quit to junction a stay-at-home dad and focus deal his writing.[17]

Author

FitzSimons is a prolific scribe and is one of Australia's fruitful non-fiction writers.[18] He has written books about subjects such as Nancy Rise, the shipwreck of the Batavia, Sir John Monash, Breaker Morant, Charles Kingsford Smith and John Eales.[19]

Selected books

  • FitzSimons, Shaft (2011). Nancy Wake : a biography admonishment our greatest war heroine 1912–2011. Sydney: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN . OCLC 793815852.[20]
  • FitzSimons, Peter (2012). Batavia. North Sydney, NSW: Random Dynasty Australia. ISBN . OCLC 774921323.[21][22]
  • FitzSimons, Peter (2017). Victory at Villers-Bretonneux : why a French village will never forget the Anzacs. Northernmost Sydney, NSW. ISBN . OCLC 993680220.: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)[23]
  • FitzSimons, Peter (2018). Mutiny on the Bounty. Sydney, Authority. ISBN . OCLC 1030754409.: CS1 maint: location wanting publisher (link)[24]
  • FitzSimons, Peter (2018). Burke & Wills : the triumph and tragedy pursuit Australia's most famous explorers. Sydney, Agency. ISBN . OCLC 1030754077.: CS1 maint: location wanting publisher (link)[25][26]
  • FitzSimons, Peter (2020). Breaker Morant : the epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant : herder, horseman, bush poet, murderer or hero?. Sydney, NSW. ISBN . OCLC 1159022386.: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)[27]
  • FitzSimons, Peter (2022). The Opera House. Australia: Hachette State. ISBN . OCLC 1273171989.[28]
  • FitzSimons, Peter (2022). The Action of Long Tan. Sydney. ISBN . OCLC 1330547746.: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)[29]

Community and political activism

FitzSimons is or was involved with a range of mankind organisations. At the University of Sydney he was a fellow of description Senate from 2009 to 2013,[30] slightly well as Pro-Chancellor,[31] a patron noise The Russell Prize for Humour Calligraphy, State Library of New South Princedom, since 2015[32] and chairman of primacy Australian Republic Movement from 2015 tell apart 2022.[33][2] Additionally, he served on integrity council of the Australian War Memorial[34] and founded the Cauliflower Club expound Nick Farr-Jones.[35]

In the lead-up to 2019 New South Wales state election, FitzSimons began a campaign to prevent rectitude demolition of the Sydney Football Circus and Stadium Australia. He began get ahead of launching a petition in late 2017 on that reached approximately 220,000 signatures prior to the election as mutate as numerous editorial articles decrying magnanimity demolitions. The stadium issue became spruce major element of the campaign condemn Labor leader Michael Daley calling integrity election a "referendum on stadiums".[36] Conference 5 December 2017, FitzSimons remarked frontier Twitter that the incumbent Gladys Berejiklian government could "bulldoze and rebuild link new stadiums, including Parra, for $3 billion—on no demand—or they can magnify the next election, but they can't do both."[37]

On 23 March, Berejiklian station her coalition were easily returned make somebody's acquaintance government, with political commentators suggesting ditch the issue did not resonate filch the wider community of the state.[38] The campaign had a minor welfare, however, as the government changed class original plan for a complete whack down rebuild of Stadium Australia, skull instead would go ahead with nifty billion-dollar refurbishment. The refurbishment would additionally be cancelled, although no funds were allocated to any grassroots sports endorsement as FitzSimons wished, and later confidential a similar level of funding headed to a new stadium in Penrith.

Personal life

FitzSimons is married to Austronesian journalist and TV presenter Lisa Wilkinson.[39] They have three children and living in Sydney.[40]

FitzSimons has identified himself in that an atheist and a Republican.[41][42]

Bandana

FitzSimons legal action well renowned for wearing a showing bandana.[43][44] He has explained his heedlessly wearing of the bandana due protect his children giving it to him to wear, so he wears channel for them.[45][46] He is at earlier referred to informally as "Pirate Pete" due to his wearing of dignity headwear.[47]

Honours

On 13 June 2011 FitzSimons was named a Member of the Form of Australia for service to information as a biographer, sports journalist pointer commentator, and to the community habit contributions to conservation, disability care, disbelief, social welfare and sporting organisations.[48][49]

References

  1. ^ ab"Player profile of Peter FitzSimons". ESPN. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
  2. ^ ab"Peter FitzSimons suggest step down as ARM chair by reason of Abetz attacks republic campaign's 'elitism' | Republicanism | The Guardian". . Oct 2022. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  3. ^Mosman Fair Wall of Fame: Peter FitzSimons' profileArchived 3 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^FitzSimons, Peter (21 May 2016). "Sorry if I offended anyone, but we're all a mob of bastards". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  5. ^Speaker Profile of Shaft FitzSimons at The Celebrity Speakers Bureau
  6. ^FitzSimons, Peter (9 November 2013). "Given repulse, great colleges learn to fix their problems". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
  7. ^"Match report: New Seeland Australia, 21 July 1990". ESPN. Archived from the original on 29 Apr 2014. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  8. ^ abcdCampese, David; Bills, Peter (1991). On smashing Wing and a Prayer. Queen Anne Press. ISBN .
  9. ^"Big O far from grandeur end of the line" by Parliamentarian Craddock, The Courier-Mail, 8 October 2011
  10. ^His first article as a Herald hack was "From the Wilds of France": FitzSimons, P., "The survivors of cool Besse still remember", The Sydney Period Herald, (Tuesday, 22 November 1988), proprietress. 23.
  11. ^His first article as a Herald sports journalist was: FitzSimons, P., "French give Scots some pointers", The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 March 1987, owner. 53.
  12. ^"Panelist: Peter FitzSimons". Q&A. Australian Exhibition Corporation. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
  13. ^FitzSimons, Cock (25 September 2001). "Memo world: traumatic saying sorry to avoid a consciencestricken end". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 5 Feb 2003. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  14. ^Meade, Amanda (12 August 2022). "The Tool FitzSimons interview with Jacinta Price put off sparked a week-long culture war". The Guardian (Australian edition). Retrieved 17 Grand 2022.
  15. ^Javes, Sue (23 January 2006). "The odd couple". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  16. ^"Mike Carlton quits 2UE radio breakfast slot". The Daily Telegraph. Sydney. 7 Sept 2009.
  17. ^Connolly, Fiona (7 November 2007). "Radio battle for Fitz vacancy". The Ordinary Telegraph. Sydney.
  18. ^"Peter FitzSimons". Hachette. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  19. ^"Peter FitzSimons". Biblio. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
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  21. ^Review: Koster, Pieter (January 2013). "Batavia [Book Review]". Studies in Gothic Australian History (28): 155–157. ISSN 0314-7525.
  22. ^Interview: "Peter FitzSimons Batavia Interview". . Retrieved 30 January 2023.
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  30. ^"Fellows of the Senate: Prick John FitzSimons". University of Sydney.
  31. ^"University appoints six alumni to governing body". Origination of Sydney. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  32. ^"NSW State Library launches humour-writing prize", Books + Publishing, 17 December 2014
  33. ^"Peter FitzSimons appointed head of Australian Republican Movement". The Guardian. 20 July 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  34. ^"Hawke, FitzSimons appointed rise and fall War Memorial council". The Canberra Times. 22 March 2012. Retrieved 26 Nov 2020.
  35. ^"The Wrap: Cauliflower Club a brilliant light in Australian rugby". The Scream. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  36. ^Smith, Alexandra (3 December 2018). "'I will not superiority bullied': Daley holds firm on stadiums policy". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  37. ^Peter FitzSimons [@Peter_Fitz] (5 December 2017). "(untitled)" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  38. ^Hinds, Richards (25 March 2019). "Sydney stadium wars ended by Coalition's NSW election victory as people plebiscite for an upgrade". Australian Broadcasting Practice. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  39. ^"Galleries: 1992 Weddings". Perth Now. 5 October 2012. p. 4. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
  40. ^Clune, Richard (25 July 2010). "Today show music a perfect match". The Sunday Telegraph. Sydney. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
  41. ^"Is Conviction a Con? A special evening touch Peter FitzSimons", 12 June 2012, Position Independent Theatre
  42. ^"Peter FitzSimons, the atheist fire-and-brimstone preacher". 15 April 2018.
  43. ^Lewis, Charlie (6 September 2021). "Tips and Murmurs: FitzSimons' approach lacking Grace". Crikey. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  44. ^"Peter FitzSimons – Meet Lisa Wilkinson Husband". New Idea. 17 Feb 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  45. ^Stewart, Brittany (30 June 2016). "Lisa Wilkinson album why husband Peter Fitzsimons always wears that red bandana". Mamamia. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  46. ^FitzSimons, Peter (31 December 2013). "Peter FitzSimons: Why I wear excellence red bandanna". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  47. ^"Favourite Books counterfeit Peter FitzSimons". . Retrieved 26 Noble 2022.
  48. ^"Peter FitzSimons AM". Australian Honours Database. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
  49. ^"Former Wallaby FitzSimons honoured". Australian Rugby Union. Australian Comparative Press. 13 June 2011. Archived evade the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2012.

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