Residence Canberra, Australia Occupation Journalist | Nationality Australian Years active 1998–present | |
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Awards Paul Lyneham Award (2012) Employer The Australian Financial Review Profiles | ||
Phil coorey
Phillip Coorey is an Australian journalist, currently serving as the chief political correspondent for The Australian Financial Review (AFR).
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Coorey has covered federal politics since 1998, beginning as political correspondent for the The Advertiser. In 2003, Coorey spent two years as a New York correspondent for News Corp Australia, before returning to Canberra as the political editor of the The Advertiser.
He became chief political correspondent at Fairfax Media's The Sydney Morning Herald in 2006. During his seven years at the paper, he gained a reputation for being a journalist with key contacts on both sides of politics that breaks major political stories. He won the Paul Lyneham Award for Canberra press gallery excellence in 2012 and again in 2013. In 2012, Coorey defected to sister newspaper The Australian Financial Review.
Coorey also regularly appears on political panel television programs such as Insiders and Speers Tonight.
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Personal life
Coorey is married to fellow AFR journalist Fleur Anderson.