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Paul Bongiorno is Network Ten's Parliament House Bureau Chief in Canberra and Political Editor, positions he has held since 1991.

He has been the host of the Ten Network's national, political program, Meet The Press since 1996.

He is currently Vice President of the Federal Parliamentary Press gallery, after five years as President.

Paul came to the Bureau in December 1987 from Channel Ten, Brisbane.

In Brisbane he covered state politics and established a reputation as an investigative journalist winning four national Walkley Awards - the only TV journalist to do so.

In 1987 Paul was also the Bulletin magazine's Queensland correspondent. He is a regular radio commentator.

Paul has been in television journalism since 1974. He started out with the Seven Network in Melbourne and did a stint at WIN TV in Wollongong.

He is married with two daughters and has a Master's Degree in Theology from the Pontifical Urban University in Rome.