Ken Randall, a renowned Australian journalist with a six-decade career spanning print, radio, and television, has passed away at the age of 88. He was widely respected for his political reporting and held the record for the longest tenure as president of the National Press Club in Canberra.
Ken Randall's family said the patron and former president of the National Press Club , died peacefully on Monday night, aged 88.
Political correspondent and former ABC television host Ken Randall, whose career reporting for newspapers, magazines, radio and television spanned six decades, has died aged 88. At the Australian he was the newspaper's inaugural defence and diplomatic correspondent, and later worked as the paper's features editor, associate editor, Melbourne bureau chief and chief political correspondent.Supplied: Whitlam InstituteIn 1971, Randall was among a group of journalists who accompanied then-opposition leader Gough Whitlam on his historic visit to China, and he later presented 'Order in the House' — a weekly ABC TV program summarising parliamentary proceedings.
Current NPC president, and Chief Political Correspondent for the ABC's 730 program, Laura Tingle paid tribute to her former colleague and highlighted his "immense contribution to "steering the Club through some tough times"."Ken was literally the first person I ever worked with when I came to Canberra and he was a kind, generous and wise colleague to me and other young reporters," she recalled.
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