Laurie Oakes Biography
Laurie Oakes is a retired journalist from Australia. He is one of Australia’s most prominent political pundits, with a remarkable media career spanning more than 30 years.
Laurie Oakes Age
He was born on 14 August 1943 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Oakes is 79 years old as of August 2022.
Laurie Oakes Education
Laurie attended Lithgow High School. He later graduated in 1964 from the University of Sydney.
Laurie Oakes Family
Oakes, the son of Wes and Hazel Oakes, was born in Newcastle, New South Wales. His father was an accountant for BHP. Oakes’ father was transferred to Cockatoo Island, a small island off the coast of Derby, Western Australia, where an iron ore mine was located when he was six years old.
Laurie Oakes 9 News- Career
He was a part-time reporter for the Sydney Daily Mirror. From 1969 to 2017, he worked in the Canberra Press Gallery, covering the Australian Parliament and federal elections for print, radio, and television. He was the Melbourne Sun’s Canberra Bureau Chief at the age of 25, and while working for that paper, he began offering political commentary for the TV show Willesee at Seven. He launched The Laurie Oakes Report, a televised political newspaper, in 1978. He joined Network Ten in 1979 and stayed for five years. He has since written on politics for the Melbourne Age and the Sydney Sunday Telegraph. He provided commentary for numerous radio programs. He was able to secure a draft copy of the Australian federal budget.
In 1997, Oakes exploited leaked records to expose parliamentary travel expense misuse, thereby ending the careers of three ministers, several other MPs, and several of their staff. He recently utilized leaked data to prove that the Rudd Government ignored concerns from four major ministries regarding its FuelWatch program. Oakes has been a weekly contributor to a number of Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL)-owned media channels, including the defunct Channel 9 television show, Sunday. He has also worked as a correspondent for Nine News. He contributed a weekly piece to The Bulletin until it discontinued publishing in January 2008. Oakes then retired and continued to write for news.com.au magazines. He stated that he will retire on August 18, 2017.
Laurie Oakes Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.