Dennis Atkins is a

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based in

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. Atkins has worked for a number of media outlets, including

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's ''News-Sun Pictorial'' and Brisbane's ''

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''. He worked in the Canberra press gallery in the 1980s and from 2000 to 2005, the latter period as national political editor for ''The Courier-Mail''. In 1993, as chief media adviser to Labor Party

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, Atkins became embroiled in the Cape Melville affair, though a Criminal Justice Commission investigation later cleared him of wrongdoing. Atkins was national affairs editor at ''The Courier-Mail'' until July 2019 and has been a regular panelist on '' Insiders'', a panel discussion program on

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. He is currently a freelance writer and critic based in Brisbane, and co-host of the podcast Two Grumpy Hacks with Malcolm Farr.

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