| Tom Fitzgerald | |
| Birth Name: | Thomas Michael Fitzgerald |
| Birth Date: | 28 August 1918 |
| Birth Place: | Marrickville, New South Wales |
| Death Place: | Darlinghurst, New South Wales |
| Occupation: | economist, journalist, advisor |
| Known For: | Fitzgerald report |
Thomas Michael Fitzgerald (28 August 1918 – 25 January 1993) was an Australian economist, journalist and political advisor.[1]
Fitzgerald trained in economics by reading Keynes at the University of Sydney (1936–40).[1]
Fitzgerald enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in November 1942 and, after training, was navigator on Liberator bombers in 1944–45.[1]
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.[2] He sold Nation to Gordon Barton in 1972 and was editorial director of Rupert Murdoch's News Limited from 1970 to 1972.
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.[3]
In 1990 Fitzgerald delivered a set of six Boyer Lectures "Between Life and Economics – 'A dissenting case.[4]
Fitzgerald married in 1945, and had two sons and two daughters. He died in St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst on 25 January 1993.