Christopher Pearson

Christopher Pearson (28 August 1951 – 7 June 2013) was an Australian journalist and conservative commentator who wrote for national broadsheet The Australian and who for many years before had edited a monthly cultural magazine, The Adelaide Review.

Biography Born in Sydney on 28 August 1951, Pearson spent most of his life in Adelaide. He received a Bachelor of Arts with Honours (third-class) from Flinders University as well as a Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of Adelaide.

Pearson wrote occasional articles for a wide range of newspapers, including The Herald, The Age, and The Courier-Mail, through the 1980s and 1990s. He was a regular columnist for the Australian Financial Review between 1997 and 2001, before moving to the Weekend Australian. In this paper he wrote commentary and articles that covered a wide variety of cultural and religious matters pertaining to Australian society. He was also on the board of the government-owned SBS television station. He served as a speechwriter to Howard, who served as Prime Minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, and was a close friend and mentor to another Prime Minister, Tony Abbott (2013–2015), whose books he also edited.

Pearson died in Adelaide on 7 June 2013. by which time he had committed to a life of chastity. both of whom had previously written or spoken admiringly of his work.