Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.
Before joining Aviation Week in 2006 he was a macroeconomics, politics and aerospace journalist with Reuters. Perrett holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Macquarie University, Sydney. He left Aviation Week in 2020.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s call for sustainable warship building removes a risk that the government could switch to ordering all ships for the Royal Australian Navy from abroad, giving up on the trouble-plagued industry.