Career
Harvey was a long-serving correspondent and contributor with the Nine Network from 1975 to 2013. He worked at radio stations 2UE and 2GB before moving to London and working for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio. Harvey changed to television when he joined the Nine Network in 1973 and served as its news director in the network"s Canberra bureau for many years.
One of his first major stories was the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in November 1975.
Harvey also reported for the network from numerous international trips by Australian prime ministers and was based in Saudi Arabia in 1990 with American forces at the commencement of the first Gulf War. He transferred from Canberra to the network"s Sydney headquarters in February 1997.
He was inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame on 27 April 2014. On 11 October 2012, Harvey announced that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
On 2 March 2013, Harvey died at North Shore Private Hospital in Sydney at the age of 68.