Ian Campbell Templeton (born 24 March 1929) is a veteran New Zealand political reporter who celebrated 50 years of reporting the

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from the press gallery in 2007. He has written several books on politics. He was the only print journalist to get a weekly one-on-one briefing with Prime Minister

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. He was educated at

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, and completed an economics degree at the

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. After university he was a general reporter for two years at the '' Otago Daily Times''. His twin brother Hugh was a former diplomat, public servant and politician, and their brother

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is a diplomat, public servant and author. Templeton was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the

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, and a

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in the

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, both for services to journalism. In May 2011 he was conferred an honorary doctorate by Massey University.Oration by Colin James
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