The TV journalist is stepping down after 50 years. The 73-year-old has decided to call time on what has been a remarkable career with his last day of work set for August 18. “To pinch an election ...

Laurie Oakes, who started as a newspaper journalist and became Australia's most recognisable television political reporter, is retiring as he approaches his 74th birthday. The three-time Walkley Award ...

Laurie Oakes has announced that he is quitting his Sunday morning show. The Australian broadcaster, who has interviewed politicians on the Nine Network's Oakes Interview for almost 30 years, said that ...

TONY Abbott should not be let off the hook over how he would roll back the carbon tax, writes Laurie Oakes. A GOVERNMENT goes to the polls, wins, and then within months breaks one of its core election ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The doyen of the Canberra press gallery has lifted his eyes from Capital Hill to lend his support to the residents of Uriarra Village ...

Laurie Oakes has been inducted into the TV Week Logies Hall of Fame. The Australian television reporter, who is best known for interviewing politicians on the Nine Network, was awarded the title at ...

ACCORDING to Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens, Australians at the moment are "mostly unhappy". Talkback radio provides plenty of evidence of that. The complaining of shock jocks and their callers ...

LAURIE Oakes has described Gough Whitlam as an “enormously intelligent” man who moved faster than any prime minister in history, but failed to pay attention to the politics. The Channel 9 political ...

There was no sign that the would-be First Lady was being ironic. No sign that she recognised the massive contradiction between the values she was advocating and the crude talk and thuggish behaviour ...

I think my expression sums it up, but I'll say it anyway: 'You're in a hole, politically.' Photo: Screenshot Wait - was that question a dig at Bill Shorten or me? Photo: Screenshot/Nine This is why – ...