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Margo Kingston (born 1959) is an Australian political journalist who formerly worked for The Sydney Morning Herald.

Kingston was born in Maryborough, Queensland and grew up in Mackay. After graduating from the University of Queensland with a degree in arts and law, she practised as a solicitor in Brisbane and lectured in commercial law in Rockhampton before becoming a journalist for The Courier-Mail, now Brisbane's only daily newspaper. Within a year she moved to The Times on Sunday (a now-defunct national newspaper) and has since worked for The Age, The Canberra Times and A Current Affair, a nightly current events programme on the Nine Network.

Kingston achieved prominence in 1998 when she led a sit-in of journalists at the federal election campaign launch of the One Nation Party in the Queensland town of Gatton— the journalists were unhappy with the party's treatment of the media during the campaign. Her experiences during this election campaign are recorded in her book, Off The Rails: The Pauline Hanson Trip.

Though Kingston is openly left-of-centre in her political leanings, she is respected by some on the other side of politics for her political journalism. She currently confines herself primarily to opinion pieces though she occasionally writes news reports on Australian politics. She also writes Webdiary, which until August 22, 2005 was on the Herald website, in which she and contributors from the general public record their opinions on current events. This also has a leftist slant, reinforced by what has been attacked as nepotism in appointing her leftist brother Hamish Alcorn as a moderator. Margo Kingston terminated her contract with Fairfax, publishers of The Sydney Morning Herald in August 2005. Temporary digs were set up at www.webdiary.com.au whilst creation of a new open source based site continues.

She incorporated many opinions featured in Webdiary into her 2004 book Not Happy, John, which inspired the 'Not happy John!' campaign, of which she is a founding member. Kingston is also a regular guest on Late Night Live, a nightly radio programme on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National network.

Quotes

  • "The fundamentalist Zionist lobby controls politics and the media in the US and Australia." - 22 July 2004
  • "Obviously, I did not mean what many people believed I meant. I am not anti-semitic, and I thought what I wrote was a statement of fact. Is there a language problem here?" - 26 July 2004
  • "If Australia as a whole says yes to returning a Liberal government, I think our democracy is dead." - 24 August 2004
  • "Heil Howard. If he gets away with this he really can get away with anything." - 22 February 2005

Further reading

  • Kingston, Margo. Off the Rails: The Pauline Hanson Trip. Paperback, 243 pages. Published June 2004 by Allen&Unwin. ISBN 1865081590.
  • Kingston, Margo. Not Happy, John! defending Australia's democracy. Paperback, 240 pages. Published 2004 by Penguin. ISBN 0143002589.

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