Tom Fitzgerald (economist)

Tom Fitzgerald
Born	Thomas Michael Fitzgerald (1918-08-28)28 August 1918 Marrickville, New South Wales
Died	25 January 1993(1993-01-25) (aged 74) Darlinghurst, New South Wales
Occupation(s)	economist, journalist, advisor
Known for	Fitzgerald report

Thomas Michael Fitzgerald (28 August 1918 – 25 January 1993) was an Australian economist, journalist and political advisor.[1]

Education

Fitzgerald trained in economics by reading Keynes at the University of Sydney (1936–40).[1]

Career

Fitzgerald enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in November 1942 and, after training, was navigator on Liberator bombers in 1944–45.[1][2]

Fitzgerald was financial editor of The Sydney Morning Herald from 1952 to 1970.[1] While retaining his employment by Fairfax, he began publishing Nation, a fortnightly journal, in September 1958. Sylvia Lawson was one of his early contributors.[3] He sold Nation to Gordon Barton in 1972[2] and was editorial director of Rupert Murdoch's News Limited from 1970 to 1972.[1]

Fitzgerald produced the "Fitzgerald Report – The contribution of the mineral industry to Australian welfare : report to the Minister for Minerals and Energy" (1974) for the Whitlam government.[4]

In 1990 Fitzgerald delivered a set of six Boyer Lectures "Between Life and Economics – 'A dissenting case'".[5]

Personal

Fitzgerald married in 1945, and had two sons and two daughters. He died in St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst on 25 January 1993.[2]

References

1. Fitzgerald, Denis; Wallace, Lesley (20 November 2003). "The research papers of Tom Fitzgerald". John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library.
2. "Fitzgerald, Thomas Michael (Tom) (1918–1993)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 14 November 2018
3. "Sylvia Lawson, journalist who reinvigorated Australian cinema". The Sydney Morning Herald. 19 February 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
4. Burnside, Sarah. "Mining history in the 2013 election". Retrieved 27 October 2014.
5. Between Life and Economics – 'A dissenting case