Alan Oakley is an English-born Australian journalist. Oakley worked as a journalist for the

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'' Daily Express'', before emigrating to Australia in 1985, to work for the Sydney '' Daily Telegraph''. He later edited the '' Herald Sun'' in

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, and ''

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'' in Sydney, before working as a media and

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consultant at Buchan Consulting in Melbourne. Oakley later became editor-in-chief and publisher of Newcastle Newspapers (overseeing publications including ''

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'', ''The Newcastle Post'' group and ''The Central Coast Sun Weekly'') and Melbourne's '' Sunday Age''. He was editor of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' from September 2005 until December 2008. In March 2009 he joined

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in the role of national editor, features.

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