Sandra Harvey was the police reporter for Australian Associated Press and for the Sydney Morning Herald for eleven years. She also worked as press secretary for the former New South Wales police minister Paul Whelan and as a producer with the ABC program Four Corners.
Harvey wrote true crime books, several of them co-authored with Lindsay Simpson (q.v.). Her books include Brothers in Arms (1989), an account of the 1984 Milperra massacre between rival bikie gangs.