Alan Graham Ramsey (3 January 1938 – 24 November 2020) was an Australian journalist and columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald from 1986 to 2008.
[3] Ramsey started his career in journalism in 1953 as a copy boy and later as a cadet journalist working for Frank Packer, who then owned the Sydney Daily Telegraph.
[2] Ramsay gained experience working for small newspapers in Mount Isa and Darwin, before joining Australian Associated Press (AAP).
Gorton graciously accepted the apology, while inviting the Labor Party Opposition to withdraw its motion that Ramsey be immediately arrested by the serjeant-at-arms of the House.
[6] Ramsey wrote for a number of other publications before becoming a speech-writer and press secretary for Australian Labor Party opposition leader Bill Hayden from 1978 until 1983.
[7] Writing about him in The Sydney Morning Herald, columnist Damien Murphy notes that his columns brought in a mix of "insights, anger, venom, sentimentality, and grace."