Tingle, Laura

Laura Tingle has worked in the federal parliamentary press gallery for nearly twenty years, reporting on politics and economics, including stints as political correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald , and as chief political correspondent for both The Australian and The Age newspapers. She has also worked as chief political correspondent of the Australian Financial Review .

Laura moved into political reporting from economics, following a long period covering financial markets and deregulation for the Australian Financial Review and as economics correspondent for The Australian . She is also the author of Chasing the Future - a book documenting how the recession of the early 1990s changed Australia's political and economic debate.

In June 2004, Laura won the Paul Lyneham Award for Excellence in Press Gallery Journalism.

Events

c. 1985 -	Career in journalism active
1992	Walkley Award (Print) - Best Coverage of a Current Story - Highly Commended (with David Ikin, Miranda Devine, Les Mennedy and Mark Jones)
2005	Walkley Award (All Media) - Coverage of Indigenous Affairs - 'Cabinet Leaks' - Australian Financial Review - Fairfax

Colleague

• Devine, Miranda

  Joint Walkley Award Winners

Australian Women Exhibitions

• The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html. [ Details... ]