I have valued her company and her counsel. In February 2014, Uhlmann became the 14th presenter of AM , the ABC Radio news and current affairs program. In recent years it was also broadcast internationally throughout Asia and the Pacific on the Australia Plus Satellite Network, and on the 24-hour ABC News Channel. [4].
A career public servant, diplomat and later small business owner, she succeeded Labor MP Annette Ellis, who retired from politics at the 2010 federal election.
Chris Uhlmann’s intellectual well runs dry. Not just because of their politics (she in the right faction of Labor, he is somewhat ''more conservative''. Speaking about the decision, Mr Uhlmann said that he found it hard to leave and had a profound gratitude for the opportunities he had been provided. Sometimes I've been too aggressive, sometimes I've been too soft.''. [8], In April 2020, following the outbreak of Covid-19, Uhlmann wrote an article for The Sydney Morning Herald titled 'If a grandparent chooses a loving embrace that may kill them who are we to stop them?'. The resignation comes in the middle of fraught preselection battles for ACT Labor in the Senate and the neighbouring electorate of Canberra, with two lower house seats now without an incumbent. ''I remember vividly she came through the door and she was gorgeous,'' Uhlmann recalls.
'Chris is the right man to take on that responsibility and lead Nine into this new era,' he said. He was the national affairs editor for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, and is now senior fellow at the Australian Studies Institute at the Australian National University.
The program is currently hosted by Leigh Sales. Chris Uhlmann writes that any chance of a win for the Liberals in today's Victorian election is slim after ‘the knives fell’ on Malcolm Turnbull in August.
[3], In 2013, Uhlmann stepped down as 7.30's political editor. [13] Osborne and Uhlmann fell out when Osborne moved to restrict abortion in the ACT. I will miss her in the next parliament, but I know that she will continue to play a valued role in the Canberra community and on the national stage," the shadow assistant treasurer said. With Steve Lewis, Uhlmann has written a series of political novels set in Canberra: The Marmalade Files (2012), The Mandarin Code (2014) and The Shadow Game (2016). ''Hardly!'' Gai Brodtmann has announced she will resign from politics.Credit:Jamila Toderas. [1] In 2012, the show was revamped again, with Uhlmann returning to the political editor role, and Leigh Sales hosting the program.
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In 2011, it evolved into 7.30, a revamped current affairs program. She is best known for her series of articles and book about New South Wales Labor Party politician Eddie Obeid. He's got a very strong moral compass and a very strong sense of social justice. In August 2018, amid the 2018 Liberal Party leadership spill, Uhlmann appeared on Today, where he stated that the Sky News television channel, 2GB radio station and News Corp were "waging a war" against Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull. [15] Six years earlier, Uhlmann had written in support of establishing an abortion clinic in the territory.
Chris Uhlmann is political editor for Nine News.
''They understand he had a role to perform, I have a role to perform.