Tony Jones

TONY JONES is one of Australia's most well-known journalists, winning awards including six of Australia's leading journalism awards, the Walkleys. Crikey awarded him 'Outstanding Media Practitioner of the Year' for 'ferocious intelligence, polite calmness, [being a] dogged interrogator, deep political instincts and juggling the running agenda, [and having] a great sense of context.' He presented the ABC's premier current affairs programme Lateline for over a decade before hosting Q&A for 12 years. He has also found time to write two acclaimed thrillers, The Twentieth Man and In Darkness Visible.