Laura Margaret Tingle is an Australian journalist and author. She is the chief political correspondent of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s 7.30 current affairs television program and was previously the political editor of the Australian Financial Review.
Laura Tingle illness: Why is Laura Tingle using a walking stick?
The 62-year-old has not come out with any health problems as of now, Laura may have mobility issues as she is getting older. Tingle won the Walkley Awards in 2005 and 2011 and has also been highly commended in the Walkley Awards for her investigative journalism.
Laura Tingle 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. she resigned from the Sydney Morning Herald over the combining of The Age and Herald Canberra bureaus, the cutting of staff, and the shift to lighter stories, returning to the Australian Financial Review as a political correspondent.
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.
