Tory Shepherd is an opinion writer and journalist best known for her contributions to Australian News Limited media publications and websites, including The Advertiser and The Punch . She has also served as Acting Editor for the latter. [1] She has worked as Political Editor at The Advertiser, as a senior reporter at news.com.au and as a panelist on the ABC TV discussion program, Insiders. [2] She joined News Limited in 2006, starting with a cadetship at The Advertiser. [3] She also appeared in Episode 6 of The Chaser's Media Circus, which aired in 2014. Shepherd has been a panelist at a number of events in the Behind the Headlines series of public forums, hosted by Paul Willis at RiAus, [4] and is a member of the Mindframe media advisory group. She has described her main interests as "social justice, religion, and dodgy health treatments." [5]
The Daily Telegraph, also nicknamed The Tele, is an Australian tabloid newspaper published by Nationwide News Pty Limited, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. It is published Monday through Saturday and is available throughout Sydney, across most of regional and remote New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland.
The Advertiser is a daily tabloid format newspaper based in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. First published as a broadsheet named The South Australian Advertiser on 12 July 1858, it is currently a tabloid printed from Monday to Saturday. The Advertiser came under the ownership of Keith Murdoch in the 1950s, and the full ownership of Rupert Murdoch in 1987. It is a publication of Advertiser Newspapers Pty Ltd (ADV), a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. Through much of the 20th century, The Advertiser was Adelaide's morning broadsheet, The News the afternoon tabloid, with The Sunday Mail covering weekend sport, and Messenger Newspapers community news. The head office was relocated from a former premises in King William Street, to a new News Corp office complex, known as Keith Murdoch House at 31 Waymouth Street.
Katherine Margaret Ellis is an Australian former politician, who represented the Division of Adelaide in the Australian House of Representatives for the Australian Labor Party from 2004 until 2019. She served in multiple portfolios in the outer ministry of the 2007–2013 federal Labor government and was in the shadow cabinet after that. In March 2017 Ellis announced that she would step down from shadow cabinet as of the next reshuffle and leave parliament at the 2019 federal election.
News Corp Australia is an Australian media conglomerate and wholly owned subsidiary of the American News Corp.
Piers Akerman is an Australian columnist and conservative commentator for the Sydney newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
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Chloë Catienne Fox is an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Bright from 2006 to 2014 for the Labor Party.
Amanda Louise Rishworth is an Australian politician who has served as the Australian Labor Party member for the House of Representatives seat of Kingston in South Australia since the 2007 election. Rishworth was appointed Minister for Social Services in the Albanese ministry.
Lisa Clare Wilkinson is an Australian television presenter, journalist, and magazine editor. Wilkinson has previously co-hosted the Nine Network's breakfast television program, Today, with Karl Stefanovic (2007–2017), Weekend Sunrise on the Seven Network (2005–2007), and The Project on Network Ten (2018–2022). As of 2020 she narrates Ambulance Australia,
David Gordon Speers is an Australian journalist and host of Insiders on ABC TV.
Annabel Crabb is an Australian political journalist, commentator and television host who is the ABC's chief online political writer. She has worked for Adelaide's The Advertiser, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the Sunday Age and The Sun-Herald, and won a Walkley Award in 2009 for her Quarterly Essay, "Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull". She has written two books covering events within the Australian Labor Party, as well as The Wife Drought, a book about women's work–life balance. She has hosted ABC television shows Kitchen Cabinet, The House, Back in Time for Dinner and Tomorrow Tonight.
Kelly Leah Vincent is an Australian playwright, actress and former politician. She was elected at the 2010 state election for the Dignity Party to the eleventh and last seat for an eight-year term in the 22-member Legislative Council in the Parliament of South Australia.
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Laura Margaret Tingle is an Australian journalist and author.
Dennis Atkins is a journalist based in Brisbane, Australia. Atkins has worked for a number of media outlets, including Melbourne's News-Sun Pictorial and Brisbane's Courier-Mail. He worked in the Canberra press gallery in the 1980s and from 2000 to 2005, the latter period as national political editor for The Courier-Mail. In 1993, as chief media adviser to Labor Party Premier Wayne Goss, Atkins became embroiled in the Cape Melville affair, though a Criminal Justice Commission investigation later cleared him of wrongdoing.
Mark Kenny is an Australian journalist. He was the national affairs editor for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, and is now a Professor at the Australian Studies Institute at the Australian National University.
Niki Savva is an Australian journalist, author, and former senior adviser to prime minister John Howard and treasurer Peter Costello.
Julia Woodlands Baird is an Australian journalist, broadcaster and author. She contributes to The New York Times and The Sydney Morning Herald and is a regular host of The Drum, a television news review program on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Her non-fiction work includes a bestselling memoir, a biography on Queen Victoria and a meditation on the experience of grace during a time of dark politics.
Sharri Markson is an Australian journalist and author. She is investigations editor at The Australian and host of the Sky News Australia program Sharri, which airs on Sunday evenings. She is the winner of numerous awards in journalism, including two Walkley Awards.
Bridget Brennan is an Australian journalist.