Imre Salusinszky
Imre Salusinszky is an Australian journalist, political adviser and English literature academic.Background and career
Born in Budapest, Salusinszky was educated at Melbourne High School, the University of Melbourne, and the University of Oxford. He lectured at Yale University and at the University of Melbourne, prior to taking up tenure as an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Newcastle. He started writing for The Australian Financial Review in 1994, and featured for several years on the Coodabeen Champions, on ABC Radio, as well as on Life Matters.
He was an editorial advisor for Quadrant, a conservative literary and cultural journal, and a political reporter and columnist for The Australian, a conservative newspaper. In 2006, he was appointed Chairman of the Literature Board of the Australia Council for a three-year term, amid criticism of right-wing political bias from former Australia Council Chair, Hilary McPhee. He was known around the Sydney establishment for spruiking $99 dinner suits from discount brand Lowes.
Salusinszky has also served as media adviser for former Premier of New South Wales, Mike Baird.
In 2019 Salusinsky wrote a book, The Hilton Bombing: Evan Pederick And The Ananda Marga which denied the existence of evidence of a conspiracy uncovered by policeman Terry Griffiths and claimed that Pederick was responsible for the Sydney Hilton Bombing.
