What I learnt from the AFR archives

The best blow-by-blow account of the growth of Australian business, finance, the economy and politics is in the pages of the Financial Review.

Michael StutchburyEditor-at-large

Updated Aug 16, 2021 – 6.17am, first published at 5.00am

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Financial Review editor in chief Michael Stutchbury.

The idea to look through the early editions of The Australian Financial Review to help shape coverage of the masthead’s 70 years turned into an obsession.

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Michael StutchburyEditor-at-largeMichael Stutchbury is editor-at-large. He is in his fourth decade of writing for and editing national newspapers. After nearly six years as editor of The Australian, he returned to the Financial Review as editor-in-chief (2011-2024).