Christopher Pearson (journalist)

[2] As proprietor of the Adelaide Review, he bought the name of the Wakefield Press from the South Australian government and operated the company from 1986 to 1988.

[1][3] Pearson wrote occasional articles for a wide range of newspapers, including The Herald, The Age, and The Courier-Mail, through the 1980s and 1990s.

[2] In this paper he wrote commentary and articles that covered a wide variety of cultural and religious matters pertaining to Australian society.

His most significant work is an essay, "The ambiguous business of coming out" (1996), which was published in Peter Coleman's collection called Double Take.

[2] A selection of Pearson's writings, edited by Nick Cater and Helen Baxendale, was published in 2014 under the title A Better Class of Sunset, with introductions by Abbott and Jack Snelling,[8] both of whom had previously written or spoken admiringly of his work.