Simon Benson is the political editor and former national affairs editor at The Australian. Prior to that he was the national political editor for the Daily Telegraph. He has reported on state and federal politics for 18 years. He is the author of the bestselling 2010 political book Betrayal: The Underbelly of Australian Labor. Benson was awarded the Peter Hunt Eureka Prize for environmental journalism in 2001.
He is the author of Betrayal (2010) and Plagued (2022).
