Peter John Cochrane FAHA (born 15 April 1950) is an Australian historian and writer.
He published Simpson and the Donkey: The Making of a Legend, which won a Fellowship of Australian Writers Award for Nonfiction.
[2] Tom Curran criticised Cochrane's version of the story of John Simpson Kirkpatrick and his donkey in a 1996 article in Quadrant.
[6] Cochrane published Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy, which told the story of the introduction of responsible government to New South Wales.
[7] Colonial Ambition shared the inaugural Prime Minister's Prize for History with Les Carlyon's The Great War.