Richard Carleton

Richard George Carleton (11 July 1943 – 7 May 2006) was a multi-Logie Award winning Australian television journalist. Carleton was born in Bowral, New South Wales and educated at Sydney Grammar School and graduated from the University of New South Wales. In 1965 he hosted This Day Tonight as well as being the presenter of State of the Nation, both on the ABC. He continued these roles until he left for a role on 2GB Radio in 1976, followed by what... more

Richard George Carleton (11 July 1943 – 7 May 2006) was a multi-Logie Award winning Australian television journalist. Carleton was born in Bowral, New South Wales and educated at Sydney Grammar School and graduated from the University of New South Wales. In 1965 he hosted This Day Tonight as well as being the presenter of State of the Nation, both on the ABC. He continued these roles until he left for a role on 2GB Radio in 1976, followed by what began as a lifelong love of travelling and researching overseas, producing films in Indonesia (including being the only journalist to be allowed to visit the newly "integrated" East Timor) and the Middle East. Carleton joined the BBC in London, England in 1977 for the Tonight program, before returning to Australia in 1979. During 1986, Carleton was a co-presenter of The Carleton-Walsh Report on the ABC, with financial journalist Maximilian Walsh. Carleton ran for election in 1983 as the staff representative on the ABC Board. He was defeated... less