Thomas Michael Fitzgerald (28 August 1918 – 25 January 1993) was an Australian economist, journalist and political advisor.
[1] Fitzgerald enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in November 1942 and, after training, was navigator on Liberator bombers in 1944–45.
[1] While retaining his employment by Fairfax, he began publishing Nation, a fortnightly journal, in September 1958.
[3] He sold Nation to Gordon Barton in 1972[2] and was editorial director of Rupert Murdoch's News Limited from 1970 to 1972.
[4] In 1990 Fitzgerald delivered a set of six Boyer Lectures "Between Life and Economics – 'A dissenting case'".