Alan Ramsey

Alan Ramsey

Alan Graham Ramsey was an Australian journalist and columnist. He worked for The Daily Telegraph, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and the Australian Associated Press. He was inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame in 2017. He died on 24 November 2020, aged 82, after suffering from dementia.

About Alan Ramsey in brief

Summary Alan RamseyAlan Graham Ramsey was an Australian journalist and columnist. He worked for The Daily Telegraph, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and the Australian Associated Press; covering the Vietnam War, Australian politics, and writing columns and opinion pieces. He was inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame in 2017. He died on 24 November 2020, aged 82, after suffering from dementia and having spent the last months of his life in a nursing home on the south coast of New South Wales.

Ramsey was married twice: first to Jeanette Murphy and then to journalist Laura Tingle. He had three children from his first marriage and a daughter from his second marriage. He retired as the oldest longest serving Australian political reporter covering Federal politics. In his 2009 book A Matter of Opinion, he published a selection of more than a decade of opinion pieces for The Herald.