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Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly is one of Australia's most respected national affairs commentators. His award-winning career in journalism spans three decades and has been devoted to covering national politics and social, economic, and foreign policy. Editor-at-Large of The Australian newspaper, Paul Kelly joins Barrie Cassidy for an authoritative and insightful analysis of politics each week on Insiders.

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Mike Bowers

Mike Bowers is the nation's most experienced and respected political photographer. He claims federal politics is in his blood - his father, acclaimed journalist Peter Bowers, covered national affairs for 46 years. Mike spent almost 20 years working as a photographer in Canberra, including 11 years with Fairfax, before hanging up his camera to take up the position of Managing Editor (Photographics) for the Sydney Morning Herald. Mike has also worked as a freelance photographer in London and Asia and has covered several international stories, including conflicts in Bouganville and Kosovo.

Piers Akerman

Piers Akerman is a highly experienced journalist and a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph. He has also been editor of the Adelaide Advertiser, editor-in-chief of The Herald in Melbourne, and has worked for News Limited in London and the United States.

Dennis Atkins

Dennis Atkins has worked in and covered politics across Australia for more than 30 years, including about 15 years in Canberra. He was national chief of staff with Melbourne’s News-Sun Pictorial during the 1980s and national political editor for The Courier-Mail while John Howard was Prime Minister. He is currently the Courier-Mail’s national affairs editor based in Brisbane, writing editorials, analysis and features as well as a regular political column, Party Games.

Tim Blair

Tim Blair is a columnist, editor and blogger with The Daily Telegraph newspaper. His areas of interest include global meteorological phenomena, urban and international transport logistics, comparative religious study and interactive autochthonal art. He was raised in Victoria and now lives in Bondi Junction, Sydney.

Andrew Bolt

Andrew Bolt is an associate editor with the Herald Sun, in Melbourne. His opinion column focuses on politics, culture and society and appears on Mondays and Thursdays. Andrew has broad experience in journalism and spent several years working as a correspondent in Asia, before returning to Australia. His book "The Best of Andrew Bolt: Still Not Sorry" was released in 2006.

Annabel Crabb

Annabel Crabb is a political writer and columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald, having recently returned from London where she worked as a correspondent for The Sunday Age and Sun Herald. She is the author of a book about the Australian Labor Party. South Australian by birth, Annabel covered state and federal politics for The Advertiser in the 1990s before moving to The Age in 2000 where she worked as federal political correspondent.

Malcolm Farr

Malcolm Farr is one of the nation's most respected political journalists. Based in Canberra, he is chief political reporter for Sydney's Daily Telegraph. He has worked for a number of Australian publications including the Daily Mirror, Brisbane Sun and The Australian.

Gerard Henderson

Gerard Henderson is Executive Director of the policy forum, The Sydney Institute. Gerard writes weekly opinion pieces for The Sydney Morning Herald and The West Australian and regularly comments on public affairs on ABC Radio National. Gerard has worked for a number of Liberal politicians, and was senior adviser to John Howard between 1984 and 1986. He is the author of several books.

Fran Kelly

Fran Kelly is a respected ABC radio presenter, current affairs journalist and political correspondent. She has held positions including Chief Political Correspondent for the AM and PM programs, Political Editor of the 7.30 Report and ABC Europe Correspondent based in London. In 2005 she took up her current position as host of Radio National’s agenda-setting Breakfast program.

George Megalogenis

George Megalogenis spent 11 years in the Canberra press gallery between 1988 and 1999 before returning to Melbourne as a senior writer for The Australian. He is the author of "Faultlines: race, work and the politics of changing Australia" and "The Longest Decade".

Karen Middleton

Karen Middleton is Chief Political Correspondent for SBS Television. Based in the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery in Canberra since 1989, Karen is an experienced television, radio and newspaper commentator. She writes a weekend column for The Canberra Times and does commentary for both ABC and commercial radio. She is also Press Gallery president.

Glenn Milne

Glenn Milne has covered Federal Politics for 20 years. He writes for News Limited’s Sunday publications and has a weekly political column in The Australian. Previously, Glenn was Chief Political Correspondent for the Seven Network and Political Editor of The Australian. He also serves as a Vice President and Director of the National Press Club.

Misha Schubert

Based in Canberra, Misha Schubert covers federal politics for The Age. She started her journalism career at The Australian, and has freelanced for Melbourne Radio 3AW. Misha has a masters in journalism from Columbia University in New York, where she covered the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001.

Brian Toohey

Walkley award winning journalist, Brian Toohey is a columnist with the Australian Financial Review, the Sun Herald, and The West Australian. He is a former Canberra and Washington correspondent for the Australian Financial Review, and is the author of several books.

Lenore Taylor

Lenore Taylor has covered federal politics for 15 years, writing for The Canberra Times, The Australian and The Australian Financial Review. She returned to Australia in 2002 after a posting as The Australian Financial Review's European correspondent and is now that paper's Canberra-based national affairs writer, providing columns, analysis and investigative stories.

Kerry-Anne Walsh

Kerry-Anne Walsh has been pounding a keyboard, in front of the microphone or behind the cameras in Canberra press gallery newsrooms for longer than she dares remember. She has covered the rise and fall of several Prime Ministers and aspiring PMs - and numerous scandals in between - since Bob Hawke came to power in 1983. Kerry-Anne Walsh has been a producer and reporter for the ABC, News Limited papers, Channel Ten and the respected Bulletin magazine. She currently writes news, analysis and columns for Fairfax's Sydney-based The Sun-Herald and is a radio commentator in Australia and New Zealand.