Paul Damian Bongiorno was born on 1944 and is an Australian political journalist and commentator.
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Paul Bongiorno holds a master's degree in theology from the Pontifical Urban University in Rome.
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Paul Bongiorno is married with two daughters and is a second cousin of Bernard Bongiorno, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
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Paul Bongiorno started in television at the Seven Network in Melbourne in 1974, moved to WIN TV in Wollongong later that year, then moved to Network Ten in Brisbane in 1978 as a reporter and, for a time, a weather presenter.
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Paul Bongiorno has been with Ten's Canberra bureau since 1988.
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Paul Bongiorno hosted Ten's national Sunday morning show, Meet the Press, from 1996 until 2012.
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Paul Bongiorno is a regular contributor on ABC's RN Breakfast and the national newspaper The Saturday Paper.
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Paul Bongiorno describes Sir John Kerr as a "venal deceptive man", and the senior judges who advised him as "lacking moral compass".
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Paul Bongiorno believes the reserve powers of the governor-general should be scrapped.
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On Radio National, Paul Bongiorno likened the conservative Liberal-National Abbott government to a "dictatorship".
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Paul Bongiorno describes Tony Abbott as "famous for saying the exact opposite of what reality is".
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Paul Bongiorno describes Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as the "best thing [the Liberal-National Party Coalition] has going for it".
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Paul Bongiorno did not acknowledge the taxpayer funding and requirement for the ABC to be impartial, which was criticised by several Sky News hosts and panellists.