Laura Tingle

Laura Margaret Tingle (born 14 February 1961[2]) is an Australian journalist and author. She is currently the chief political correspondent of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's 7.30 current affairs television program and was previously the political editor of Australian Financial Review.

Laura Tingle
Tingle in 2016
Born (1961-02-14) 14 February 1961
Sydney, Australia
NationalityAustralian
OccupationJournalist
Years active1981–present
OrganizationFairfax Media
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1995; div. 2017)​
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Partner(s)Sam Neill (2017–)
Children1
Parents

Career

Tingle began her career in Sydney as a cadet journalist with Fairfax Media's Australian Financial Review and Business Review Weekly in the early 1980s, reporting on financial deregulation and the floating of the dollar. In 1987, she moved to News Limited's The Australian newspaper as an economics correspondent. She was appointed chief political correspondent in 1992 and national affairs correspondent from 1994. In 1996, she returned to Fairfax as a political correspondent for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. In 2002, she returned to the Australian Financial Review as political correspondent and was subsequently appointed chief political correspondent and Canberra bureau chief from 2003, then political editor in 2008.[2]

Tingle's book, Chasing the Future: Recession, Recovery and the New Politics in Australia—documenting the recession of the early 1990s—was published in 1994.[3] She has written four issues of Quarterly Essay: "Great Expectations – government, entitlement and an angry nation" in June 2012, "Political Amnesia – how we forgot to govern" in November 2015,[4] "Follow the Leader: Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman" in September 2018[5] and "The High Road: What Australia Can Learn From New Zealand" in November 2020.[6] Her book In Search of Good Government was published by Black Inc in 2017.[7]

Tingle won Walkley Awards in 2005 and 2011 and has also been highly commended in the Walkley Awards for her investigative journalism. She also won the Paul Lyneham Award for Press Gallery Journalism in 2004 and was shortlisted for the John Button Prize for political writing in 2010.[3] In 2017 she won the Qantas-European Union journalism prize. She makes regular appearances on ABC Radio National's Late Night Live and Insiders on ABC TV.[8]

In February 2018, Tingle left the Australian Financial Review and joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as chief political correspondent of the 7.30 program.[9]

Political analysis

Tingle is a regular political commentator on the ABC's 7.30 and Insiders programs and is a columnist.

In 2010, in the days after the federal election when both major parties were negotiating with the House of Representatives crossbench about who would form government, she wrote a scathing criticism of the Coalition's election costings, based on the Treasury assessment of them. The piece was headlined "Liars and Clunkheads Fail Budget Test".[10]

Tingle has subsequently described Abbott as an "oaf", an "utter destructive force" and a "waste of space".[11][12] When Malcolm Turnbull challenged and won the Liberal leadership and prime ministership from Abbott in an internal party ballot in 2015, Tingle described it as "the end of a particularly poisonous period in Australian politics", saying that "Australia has been pushed sharply to the right" and that Abbott's government was "unlamented ... except at News Corporation". She denounced Abbott's focus on "the Daesh death cult, the ABC, the Ice Epidemic, Labor-appointed boards and public servants".[13]

When Turnbull subsequently resigned as Liberal prime minister ahead of a similar internal party leadership ballot in 2018, Tingle described the replacement of Turnbull with Scott Morrison as "utterly pointless".[14] She judged that the move to oust Turnbull was driven by "pure spite and collective madness".[15] On the day he resigned, Turnbull chose Tingle as the first of a small number of reporters permitted to question him at his final press conference.[16][17] She asked if he regretted making too many concessions to conservatives.[18]

In 2020, Tingle blamed the departure of ABC journalist Philippa McDonald from the ABC on "ideological bastardry" on the part of the Morrison Government in a Tweet which concluded "hope you are feeling smug @ScottMorrisonMP". ABC managing director and editor-in-chief David Anderson called the Tweet, which Tingle had deleted, a "mistake" during a subsequent Senate Estimates hearing.[19]

Personal life

Tingle was born in Sydney, the youngest daughter of Pam Chivers and journalist John Tingle[20] who, after a long career in journalism with the ABC and commercial radio, founded the Shooters Party in 1992 and was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1995.[21]

Tingle was educated at Turramurra High School and at the Australian International Independent School.[2]

She married fellow journalist Alan Ramsey in 1995. They separated in 2012 and divorced in 2017.[1] Tingle has one daughter.[22] Tingle has been in a relationship with actor Sam Neill since 2017.[23][24][25]

References
  1. "Alan Ramsey, former Herald journalist, dies aged 82" by Josh Dye, The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 November 2020
  2. Who's Who in Australia, ConnectWeb, 2016.
  3. "Tingle, Laura". The Australian Women's Register. National Foundation for Australian Women. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  4. "Review: Political Amnesia – How We Forgot How To Govern". The Conversation. 2 December 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  5. "Quarterly Essay 71: Follow the Leader – Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman", ISBN 9781760640705, readings.com.au
  6. Tingle, Laura (28 May 2020). The High Road. Melbourne. ISBN 9781760642228.
  7. Laura Tingle, In Search of Good Government (Black Inc, 1 May 2017).
  8. "Author Bio: Laura Tingle". Penguin Books. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  9. Meade, Amanda (12 February 2018). "Laura Tingle joins ABC as 7.30's chief political correspondent". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  10. "Liars and Clunkheads Fail Budget Test", Australian Financial Review, September 3, 2010(subscription required)
  11. ABC Insiders program, 6 March 2016
  12. "Tony Abbott: Even his friends now say he is a liar and a clunkhead" by Laura Tingle, Australian Financial Review, 24 February 2017 (subscription required)
  13. Leadership spill: Turnbull coup resets a government that had stopped working; Laura Tingle; Australian Financial Review, 17 September 2015 Archived 2 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine
  14. Laura Tingle (24 August 2018). "Liberal leadership spill an utterly pointless political assassination". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 12 January 2020.(subscription required)
  15. "Liberal leadership spill: The idea of compromise has not just been lost but made vile", Australian Financial Review, 31 August 2018 Archived 2 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine
  16. Prime Ministerial press conference, 24 August 2018
  17. Malcolm's media mates get final call but missed the big stories; Cut & Paste, The Australian; 27 August 2018
  18. New PM Scott Morrison facing an enormous task; 7:30 www.abc.net.au; 24 August 2018
  19. "ABC boss grilled over political correspondent Laura Tingle's 'smug' Prime Minister tweet" by Samantha Maiden, news.com.au; 21 October 2020
  20. Laura Tingle, Chasing the Future (Harcourt Education, November 1994).
  21. "Australia's many media dynasties". Crikey. 21 March 2005. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  22. Laura Tingle, "Great Expectations" 46 (2012) Quarterly Essay.
  23. "Sam Neill, Laura Tingle an item" by Stephen Brook, The Australian, 4 February 2018(subscription required)
  24. "Actor Sam Neill and AFR political editor Laura Tingle start dating". Australian Financial Review. 4 February 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.(subscription required)
  25. "Sam and Laura" by Sam Neill, ABC News (Australia), 27 February 2020
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