Tom Fitzgerald (economist)

Fitzgerald enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in November 1942 and, after training, was navigator on Liberator bombers in 1944–45.^[1][2]

Fitzgerald was financial editor of The Sydney Morning Herald from 1952 to 1970.^[1] While retaining his employment by Fairfax, he began publishing Nation, a fortnightly journal, in September 1958. Sylvia Lawson was one of his early contributors.^[3] He sold Nation to Gordon Barton in 1972^[2] and was editorial director of Rupert Murdoch's News Limited from 1970 to 1972.^[1]

Fitzgerald produced the "Fitzgerald Report – The contribution of the mineral industry to Australian welfare : report to the Minister for Minerals and Energy" (1974) for the Whitlam government.^[4]

In 1990 Fitzgerald delivered a set of six Boyer Lectures "Between Life and Economics – 'A dissenting case'".^[5]

Fitzgerald married in 1945, and had two sons and two daughters. He died in St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst on 25 January 1993.^[2]