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About Matt Price
- Matt Price (15 October 1961 – 25 November 2007) was an Australian journalist and newspaper columnist.
- Price was from Western Australia and was educated at Newman College, Churchlands and the University of Western Australia, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1984.
- He worked for the Albany Advertiser and Perth's Daily News, and covered federal politics as a member of the Canberra Press Gallery for The Australian newspaper, writing a regular column entitled "The Sketch" which often took a humorous view of parliamentary proceedings.
- He also occasionally wrote about sport.
- He worked in television, including stints at Channel Nine and Sky News, and was a regular guest on the ABC Television program Insiders.
- Price was an avid supporter of the Fremantle Dockers, a team based in Fremantle that competes in the AFL, so much so that he regularly wrote columns about his beloved "Dockers" printed in The Australian.
- Matt placed a collection of his best work together in a book entitled "Way to Go: Sadness, Euphoria and the Fremantle Dockers".In early October 2007, Price was diagnosed with multiple brain tumours (glioblastoma multiforme).
- He died on 25 November 2007.
- The prime minister-elect, Kevin Rudd, said of his death that "I am shocked and deeply saddened by the news of Matt Price's death.
- He had emerged in recent years as one of the greats of the new generation of Australian journalists."Price was married to Sue and had three children.
- His brother Richard, a barrister, is married to Senator Michaelia Cash.
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