In a working life of more than fifty years, Mike Carlton was one of
Australia's best-known media figures in radio, television and
newspapers.
Beginning as a cadet journalist at the ABC, he became a war
correspondent in Vietnam and for three years was the ABC's Bureau
Chief in Jakarta. He also reported for the ABC from London, New
York and major Asian capitals. In television, he worked on the
ABC's groundbreaking This Day Tonight current affairs program in
the 1970s and for Nine Network News and A Current Affair.
In 1980 Mike turned to talk radio, first at Sydney's 2UE and then
2GB, and later at London's LBC Newstalk 97.3FM, where he won a
coveted Sony Radio Academy award in 1993 for Britain's best talk
breakfast show. His radio satire on current affairs, Friday News
Review, was 'must listening' in Australia and the UK.
For many years he wrote a popular weekly column for the Sydney
Morning Herald.
Mike has had a life-long passion for naval history and is the
author of Cruiser, First Victory, Flagship and The Scrap Iron
Flotilla.
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