Alan Ramsey

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Alan Ramsey (born 3 January 1938) is an Australian columnist and former writer for The Sydney Morning Herald. He first started working in journalism in 1953, for Frank Packer who then owned Sydney's Daily Telegraph. Ramsey was correspondent with the first contingent of Australian combat troops to Vietnam 1965, the speechwriter for Australian Labor Party leader Bill Hayden until 1983 and was the oldest serving member of the Canberra Press Gallery before his retirement in December 2008. He released a selection of over a decade of opinion pieces for the Herald in his 2009 book A Matter of Opinion. He is a member of the board of the Whitlam Institute, and is married to another journalist from the Fairfax stable, Laura Tingle. [1][2]

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