19 Facts About Laura Tingle

Laura Margaret Tingle was born on 14 February 1961 and is an Australian journalist and author.

Laura Tingle is 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 was appointed chief political correspondent in 1992 and national affairs correspondent from 1994.

Laura Tingle was appointed chief political correspondent and Canberra bureau chief from 2003, then political editor in 2008.

Laura Tingle won Walkley Awards in 2005 and 2011 and was highly commended in the 1992 Walkley Awards for her investigative journalism.

Laura Tingle won the Paul Lyneham Award for Press Gallery Journalism in 2004 and was shortlisted for the John Button Prize for political writing in 2010.

In May 2018, Laura Tingle left the Australian Financial Review and joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as chief political correspondent of current affairs television program, 7.30.

Laura Tingle regularly fills in for Sarah Ferguson on the program.

Laura Tingle makes regular appearances on ABC Radio National's Late Night Live and Insiders on ABC TV.

On 1 May 2023, Laura Tingle was appointed staff-elected director at the ABC, winning by 30 preferential votes from 2073 ballots over business journalist Daniel Ziffer.

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

Since her resignation from the Australian Financial Review in May 2018 to join the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Laura Tingle has been the chief political correspondent of 7.30 and makes regular appearances on ABC Radio National's Late Night Live and Insiders on ABC TV.

In June 2018, Communications Minister Mitch Fifield wrote to ABC director Michelle Guthrie to make a formal complaint about panellists on the Insiders program, one of whom was Laura Tingle, making a "false claim" in the reporting of the setting of the date for by-elections.

In 2020, Laura Tingle commented on the departure of ABC journalist Philippa McDonald from the ABC as "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 Laura Tingle had deleted, a "mistake" during a subsequent Senate Estimates hearing.

Laura Tingle has been reminded of their application at external events as well as in her work and I have counselled her over the remarks.

Laura Tingle was born in Sydney, the youngest daughter of Pam Chivers and journalist John Laura Tingle 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.

Laura Tingle was in a relationship with actor Sir Sam Neill for three years from 2018 to 2021.

The portrait's composition and Laura Tingle's image were inspired by the monochrome profile image of Marlene Dietrich in the publicity posters and images for the movie Judgment at Nuremberg, and Laura Tingle's image incorporated a collage of texts related to her and chosen by both her and the artist.