Matt Peacock

Matt Peacock is a senior journalist with the ABC’s 7.30 program, having formerly been ABC Radio’s chief political correspondent and reporter in New York, Washington and London.

He is Adjunct Professor of Journalism with Sydney’s University of Technology (UTS), and authored the book Killer Company (HarperCollins, 2009), a history of Australia’s largest asbestos manufacturer, James Hardie. The book inspired the ABC Television miniseries, Devil’s Dust.

Mr Peacock was the staff-elected member to join ABC's board of directors from April 2013 to February 2018.