Andrew Probyn

Award-winning journalist Andrew Probyn is political correspondent for ABC nightly current affairs flagship 7.30. Before returning to the ABC, Probyn was Federal Political Editor for The West Australian newspaper for more than a decade. He has twice been named Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery Journalist of the Year and was named WA Journalist of the Year for 2016. He is also a winner of the Gold Quill in the Melbourne Press Club Awards. His recent award-winning stories include a series of reports exposing the secrecy over asylum-seeker boat arrivals and his coverage of the Government's plans to privatise the Medicare payments system, which became one of the main issues of the 2016 federal election.