Clive Mathieson

Clive Mathieson started journalism at The Advertiser in Adelaide in the same 1992 cadet intake as the editor of this esteemed organ (which goes some way towards explaining how he became a Punch contributor).

Quite by accident, he ended up in the business section, just in time for the start of 17 years of economic sunshine. In 1996, he moved to The Australian in Sydney, covering, among other things, the privatisation of Telstra and the early flush of the dot-com boom.

In 1999, he moved to the business section of The Times of London. Using a plummy Adelaide accent to help disguise his antipodean roots, he covered The City and the spectacular rise and fall of the dot-com crowd - surely the biggest financial calamity he was likely to experience in his lifetime.

By 2002, he was back at The Australian in Sydney, working first as business editor, then deputy night editor and night editor. As fate would have it, by the middle of 2008 he was back in the financial world as the newspaper’s deputy editor (business), just in time for the end of 17 years of economic sunshine.