INSIDERS CELEBRATES 10 YEARS ON ABC TV – Sunday, July 17, 2011

Mike Bowers

Mike Bowers is the host of Talking Pictures on Insiders which airs on ABC 1 and ABC News 24 on Sunday mornings. He is also currently the Director of Photography at The Global Mail.

Mike spent 14 years in the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery working for a number of publications including The Australian, The Age, BRW, Time, The Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald. He covered five Federal election campaigns and has accompanied three prime ministers on assignments both around Australia and overseas.

He has covered conflicts in Cambodia, Kosovo, Bougainville, PNG and the Middle East. Mike was Pictorial Editor for the Sydney Morning Herald from 2001-2008. He was Chief Photographer for the Sydney Morning Herald before striking out on his own in late 2008.

Mike has published four books, Gallipoli Untold Stories, The Big Picture 175 Years of The Sydney Morning Herald and A Century of Pictures, 100 years of Herald photography and Armageddon-trouble on a faded ANZAC trail.

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.

Phil Coorey

Phillip Coorey has covered federal politics from Canberra since 1998 when he was the Chief Political Correspondent with Adelaide's The Advertiser. He spent 2003 and 2004 in the US as News Ltd New York correspondent and covered the 2004 US primaries and presidential election. He was appointed Political Editor of The Advertiser upon his return to the press gallery. Coorey joined the Sydney Morning Herald in 2006 and was the paper's Chief Political Correspondent for almost seven years. In 2012 he won the Paul Lyneham award for press gallery excellence. He is now the Chief Political Correspondent for the Australian Financial Review.

Annabel Crabb

Annabel Crabb is the chief political writer for ABC Online. She was formerly a political writer and columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and has worked in London 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 the chief political writer for news.com.au. Before this, he was the 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.

Mark Kenny

Mark Kenny is Chief Political Correspondent for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. A seasoned observer of national politics, he has reported from Canberra for more than a decade. Prior to joining Fairfax Media, he worked for the ABC and spent seven years as the Advertiser's national political editor. A director of the National Press Club, Kenny is a sought after political commentator on radio and television programs across the country.

Jacqueline Maley

Jacqueline Maley is the political sketch writer for the Sydney Morning Herald, based in the Canberra press gallery. She has previously worked for The Guardian and worked from London writing for the Sun Herald and Sunday Age, followed by a year-long stint at the Australian Financial Review.

David Marr

David Marr was a senior writer for the Sydney Morning Herald and now writes for Guardian Australia. Over the years he has also broadcast for ABC radio, reported for Four Corners and presented Media Watch. He is a four time Walkley Award winner for print and television reporting. His books include biographies of Sir Garfield Barwick and Patrick White. In April 2013 he published an updated version of "Political Animal: The making of Tony Abbott".

George Megalogenis

George Megalogenis is a respected journalist, commentator and author with more than 25 years experience in the media. He spent over a decade in the Canberra press gallery writing for News Ltd before returning to his hometown of Melbourne as a senior writer for The Australian. He left the newspaper in 2012 to focus on writing books. Megalogenis has had several books published including The Australian Moment, which was awarded the Walkley Book Award in 2012.

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.

Andrew Probyn

Andrew Probyn has been the federal political editor and Canberra bureau chief for the West Australian since 2005. He has spent more than a decade in the Federal Press Gallery, first with the Herald Sun. Andrew also spent two years working for the ABC in Tasmania as state political reporter. He was the winner of the Melbourne Press Club's Gold Quill award in 2001 (shared with Michael Harvey) for his exclusive stories on the Peter Reith Telecard affair and in 2007 he won the political reporting prize at the WA Media Awards for his stories on the Kevin Rudd-Brian Burke affair.

Niki Savva

Niki Savva was a senior correspondent in the Canberra Press Gallery for many years, working for The Australian and as bureau chief for the Herald Sun and the Age. She’s also a former News Ltd Washington correspondent. She was former Treasurer Peter Costello’s press secretary for six years, and on John Howard’s staff for three. She is the author of So Greek, Confessions of a Conservative Leftie and is now a regular columnist for the Australian.

Michael Stutchbury

Michael Stutchbury is Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Financial Review. A former Editor and Economics Editor of The Australian, he has been writing for national newspapers on the Australian economy, business and politics for more than quarter of a century. He has also served as Washington correspondent for The Australian.

Lenore Taylor

Lenore Taylor has covered federal politics for most of the past 25 years, for The Canberra Times, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald. She is now political editor for the Guardian Australia, writing columns, analysis and stories that delve behind the daily news. From 2000 to 2003 she was the AFR's London-based European correspondent. In 2007 she won the prestigious Paul Lyneham award for press gallery journalism.

Lenore Taylor won a Walkley Award in 2010 for Best Scoop of the Year.

Laura Tingle

The Australian Financial Review's political editor Laura Tingle has spent most of her 30 year journalism career covering federal politics. She has worked for The Australian, The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Financial Review as an economics correspondent and political correspondent. She is the author of Chasing the Future - a book about the political and economic fallout of the recession of the early 1990s - and a winner of a Walkley Award for excellence in journalism and the Paul Lyneham Award for Press Gallery Journalism.

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.