Andrew Bolt

Andrew Bolt started his column in 1998, after working as a foreign correspondent. He is a regular commentator on ABC TV's Insiders, Melbourne's 3AW, Perth's 6PR and Brisbane's 4BC.
Andrew Bolt is Australia’s most controversial - and most read - social commentator, putting his finger on the hottest of hot-button issues.
Writing twice-weekly for Australia’s biggest-selling daily newspaper, Melbourne’s Herald Sun, and also for the Sunday Herald Sun, Bolt fearlessly cuts through the myths and the spin to tell you the bottom-line facts behind everything from global warming to terrorism, from refugees to the stolen generation. No sacred cow of the New Age is safe from his scalpel however he writes mostly on politics and culture.
Andrew Bolt runs the country's most popular political blog site at http://blogs.news.com.au A big-selling book of his columns - Still Not Sorry - was published in 2006.
But though his topics range from politics to film, and foreign affairs to education, Bolt’s eye is always on one thing - values. What are the new values sweeping in, and are they an improvement on the old? Which challenge the way we think, vote and do business? Which threaten us, and which will make us strong?
Bolt’s plain speaking and his defence of reason against our New Age superstitions has made him a popular speaker and debater. He is heard every Tuesday on 3AW’s Breakfast Show, the highest rating in Victoria, and is a regular panelist on ABC TV’s national program Insiders. He has also appeared as a commentator on numerous television and radio programs, from Channel Nine’s Today show to ABC’s Lateline and Late Night Live with Phillip Adams.
Outside journalism, he has worked for the Hawke Labor Government on two election campaigns, and for the State Opera of South Australia as its publicity director and acting general manager. He is married with three children.
Andrew Bolt was born in Adelaide to a Dutch migrant family and started in journalism with the Age in 1979, working as a sports, politics and crime reporter. He later joined the Herald Sun, becoming an assistant editor, and then worked as Asia correspondent for the News Ltd group of newspapers, based in Hong Kong and Bangkok. For the past five years he has been a full-time columnist. Andrew Bolt researches his subjects very well and touches on a wide range of thought provoking subjects with each opinion backed up by a great knowledge of world affairs and events.”