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Margo Kingston began her
career in law after graduating with honours from the University of
Queensland. Following a brief career in Commercial Law, Margo turned to
teaching, lecturing in commercial law for a short time.
At the age of 26, Margo
approached the Courier-Mail for work as a journalist, and was
told to start the following week as a cadet journalist. Soon after, Margo
found herself in the Canberra press gallery, reporting on the ins and
outs of politics and Parliament.
An inveterate worrier, Kingston says
her personality was completely unsuited to the law. She would lie
awake at night worrying, finally jumping out of bed to look up cases
for reassurance. With journalism, she says, at least you know the
next day whether or not you’ve made a mistake.
A fierce supporter of Aboriginal land
rights, Margo’s work reflects her underlying passion: "the human
rights of minorities", including Aboriginal people, homosexuals and
the poor.
Following the 1998
federal election, Margo reflected the campaign of Pauline Hanson in her
first publication, the controversial Off the Rails: The Pauline
Hanson Trip. Margo has worked in the halls of the Canberra press
gallery for the last 10 years, and currently writes for the Sydney
Morning Herald. She is Chief-of-Staff of the SMH Canberra bureau.
All
information for this biography has been sourced from
The
Australian - Media article of August 30th, 2000, p12
–13.
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