Nicholas Charles Cater (born 7 July, 1958)[1][2] is a British-born Australian journalist and author who writes on culture and politics.
He graduated from the University of Exeter with an honours degree in sociology in 1980 and drove laundry vans for a year before joining the BBC as a trainee studio manager.
He worked on The Advertiser in Adelaide and became group Asia correspondent in 1993, where he was best known for tracking down the paedophile Robert 'Dolly' Dunn, reported on the front page of The Daily Telegraph under the headline "Hello Dolly" on 17 April 1996.
[14][15] In 2015, the Wagner family, of Toowoomba, Queensland, sued him for defamation over comments he made in broadcasts and in print about the cause of the floods in that town in 2011, in which 12 people died.
The former Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, described The Lucky Culture as a "beautifully written and perceptive… historical essay".
[24] Among others who greeted the book favourably are Boris Johnson,[25] Geoffrey Blainey,[26] Miranda Devine,[27] Keith Windschuttle,[28] Janet Albrechtsen,[29] Julie Bishop and Jack Snelling.
He co-edited with Helen Baxendale a selection of the writings of Christopher Pearson under the title A Better Class of Sunset (2014), with introductions by Tony Abbott and Jack Snelling.