Former Wallaby Peter FitzSimons writes regular columns for The Sydney Morning Herald and the Sun-Herald, as well as occasionally appearing in such overseas journals as the London Daily Telegraph and the International Herald Tribune.  

In his two decades in print, radio and television journalism Peter has personally interviewed everyone from President George Bush Snr. to Greg Norman to Diego Maradona to Matt Damon, and every Australian Prime Minister from Gough Whitlam through to

Kevin Rudd.

As an author he has written 18 books, including biographies of Nick Farr-Jones, John Eales, Steve Waugh and Nancy Wake and was Australia's best selling non-fiction author in 2001 and 2004, the latter with his book on Kokoda.  His book on Tobruk, has sold over 100,000 copies in hardback and on writing has just been released in paperback. His latest book on Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men was recently launched by the Prime Minister in May of 2009.