Peter Hartcher is an award-winning journalist and author, and is currently the political editor and international editor for The Sydney Morning Herald. Peter won the Gold Walkley Award for his investigative series into how Australia secretly negotiated a security treaty with Indonesia. He won the Citibank award for business reporting for his coverage of the Asian economic crisis. He was a Walkey finalist in 1992 for an investigative account of how Paul Keating challenged Bob Hawke for the Prime Ministership of Australia, and again in 2003 for his analysis of the United States' motives for the invasion of Iraq. His books include Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing 7 Trillion Dollars, and most recently, To the Bitter End: the Dramatic Story Behind the Fall of John Howard and the Rise of Kevin Rudd.