Adrian Rollins joined Business News in 2026 as the masthead's first reporter based at Parliament House in Canberra.
Mr Rollins brings extensive experience covering federal politics and economics, including two stints at The Canberra Times and six years as economics correspondent for The Australian Financial Review. At the AFR he covered federal politics, Treasury, the Reserve Bank, federal budgets and the economic and political response to the Global Financial Crisis.
Earlier in his career, Mr Rollins spent several years in The Age’s Canberra bureau, including as a federal political reporter and later chief of staff, where he managed the newspaper’s 11-person federal politics bureau.
More recently, he returned to The Canberra Times as economics correspondent, covering economics, politics, monetary and fiscal policy, Treasury, the Reserve Bank and federal budgets.
His experience outside journalism includes a stint last year as a speechwriter in government. He has also worked on Australian government programs in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.
