Career
He is also a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute, a Sydney-based foreign policy think tank. His career in journalism began the following year with a cadetship at the Sydney Morning Herald. In 1986, he took up his first overseas posting as the newspaper"s Tokyo correspondent.
Between 1995 and 2000 he was the Australian Financial Review"s Asia-Pacific Editor.
He then went to the United States for three years, where he was the Washington District of Columbia correspondent. In 1998, he was the recipient of the Citibank Award for Excellence in Journalism.
In 2004, Hartcher rejoined the Sydney Morning Herald in his current capacity. In late 2012 and early 2013, Hartcher wrote several columns critical of Prime Minister Julia Gillard"s leadership and advocated that the former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd should return to the leadership.