Michelle Grattan & Laurie Oakes

Michelle Grattan and Laurie Oakes were the joint winners of the 2007 Melbourne Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award.

Political journalist Michelle Grattan

Political journalist Laurie Oakes

Michelle Grattan has explained the intricacies and twists and turns in Australia’s political and economic fortunes for almost 40 years. Laurie Oakes announced the details of a federal Budget before the Federal Government did thanks to a leak and has broken the biggest political news stories for 40 years.

Read Bill Birnbauer's profiles of Michelle Grattan and Laurie Oakes.