Full Name Laura Tingle Occupation Journalist Parents John Tingle | Nationality Australian | |
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Laura Tingle is an Australian journalist and author. She is the Australian Financial Review's Political Editor, based in the Australian Parliamentary Press Gallery. She regularly appears as on ABC radio and television.
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Career
The Australian Financial Review’s political editor Laura Tingle has covered politics, policy and economics from Canberra since 1986 for The Australian, The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Financial Review (AFR). She began her career in Sydney with the AFR in the early 1980s reporting on financial deregulation and the floating of the dollar. Her book, Chasing the Future – documenting the recession of the early 1990s – was published in 1994.
She is also the author of the June 2012 Quarterly Essay “Great Expectations – government, entitlement and an angry nation” and the 2016 Quarterly Essay 'Political Amnesia - how we forgot to govern.' Laura won the Paul Lyneham Award for Press Gallery Journalism in 2004, was shortlisted for the John Button Prize for political writing in 2010 and won Walkley awards in 2005 and 2011
Political views
Tingle has been a persistent critic of conservative politics and then Liberal leader Tony Abbott. She described his victory over Malcolm Turnbull for the Opposition leadership in a 2009 party room ballot as "a disaster of epic proportions for a party in the race to remain competitive at the next election". A supporter of carbon pricing, and an opponent of the Coalition's border protection policies, prior to the 2013 Election won by Abbott, she predicted that his border security plans would be "impossible to implement". She has subsequently described Abbott as as an "oaf", an "utter destructive force", a "waste of space", a "liar and clunkhead".
