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PETER Harvey, the journalist with the 'voice of God' who has been a loved and trusted face of Australian television news for almost 40 years, has died with his family by his bedside. He was 68.

Harvey was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in October but was positive to the end, telling an interviewer that he would hang on to the possibility that “things are going to be better, not worse.

“I don’t want worries about my day, ruining my tomorrows.”

Harvey was a journalist for 50 years, first with The Daily Telegraph and then with Newsweek and the Guardian, but it was at the Nine Network in 1975 that he found his home.

“This is the saddest of days for the Nine Network,” says Nine chief executive, David Gyngell. “Peter Harvey – Harves as he is known to everyone – is and will remain an indelible part of Nine.”

Harvey has covered politics, wars, and human tragedy, and has been a mentor to generations of journalists. His children, of whom he was extremely proud, have followed in his footsteps.

Claire Harvey is the deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph, and Adam Harvey is a journalist with ABC’s 7.30.

Claire said her father thanked the public for their good wishes during his last days. “Dad is comfy, and smiling, in hospital with our mum Anne holding his hand,” she wrote on Twitter. “He asked me to thank everyone for the love.”

Peter Harvey is known as a beautiful writer, an incisive newsman and a talented storyteller, but he will best be remembered for his voice, one that his Nine colleagues described as the ‘voice of God’.

“One of the funny things is that I’m getting kids aged 18 and 19 coming up to me and saying, ‘would you say Peter Harvey, Canberra’ for me, you know?” he recently told the ABC. “I left Canberra in 97!”

Harvey’s colleagues say Australian journalism won’t be the same without him. “We lose a character,” says Ray Martin. “Journalism, like politics and life, is full of bland, colourless people. He is full of colour.”

Long-time friend and Nine Network colleague Peter Overton says “we lose a fine storyteller. He came into the lounge rooms of so many families across Australia for so many years.”

Peter Harvey is survived by his wife, Anne, his children Claire and Adam, and his grandson Rory.
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...he always seemed to be one of the few journos that I thought was the genuine deal when it comes to honesty and integrity when it comes to journalism... I liked him... cheers.
 
Yeah he was an old fashioned proper journalist..........and what a voice.

To me it was allways him and Laurie Oaks, are the real deal, and it's serious when they come on - you focus and listen
 
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