Profiles

Professor Peter Van Onselen

academic, author, political journalist and presenter for Sky News Australia

Van Onselen is the Contributing Editor at The Australian newspaper and Sky News. He also writes a weekly column in the Sunday Telegraph which is also published in the Sunday Times. Dr van Onselen hosts The Contrarians on Fridays and Showdown on Tuesday evenings on Sky News. He also hosts Australian Agenda on Sunday mornings, a joint production between Sky News and The Australian newspaper, interviewing politicians such as Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott, John Howard, Barry O'Farrell and Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim.

He has written or edited three books, including the best selling John Winston Howard (with Dr Wayne Errington), rated by the Wall Street Journal Asia as the best biography of 2007.