- Jennifer Byrne
Jennifer Byrne is an Australian print, radio and television journalist. Byrne was educated at St Margaret's School, Melbourne as a boarding student, and began her career in journalism at age 16 as a cadet at Melbourne's "The Age" newspaper. At 23 she became the paper's San Francisco correspondent, and later a feature writer. Byrne's television career began as a reporter on "Nationwide".
- Andrew Denton
Andrew Christopher Denton (born May 4 1960) is an Australian comedian and television presenter, and is the host of the ABC's weekly interview program "Enough Rope". He is one of Australia's most quick-witted comedians and interviewers and his talents have won him nation-wide fame.
- Tony Jones
Tony Jones is an Australian television journalist. He is the host of the ABC's "Lateline" nightly television news programme.
- Kerry O'Brien
Kerry O'Brien is an Australian television journalist. Born in Queensland, O'Brien started as a news cadet in 1966. He has worked in newspapers, wire service and television news and current affairs, as a general reporter, feature writer, political and foreign correspondent, interviewer and compère, and also served as press secretary to former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
- Tony Eastley
Tony Eastley is the presenter of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation local radio news and current affairs programme "AM". He is based in Sydney. Prior to this he was the newsreader of the NSW ABC-TV 7pm news, having taken over from long-standing newsreader Richard Moorecroft.
- Eleanor Hall
Eleanor Hall is an Australian Broadcasting Corporation journalist and presenter of the "World Today" programme on ABC Local Radio. She has previously worked on American radio and television, and for ABC Television's 7:30 Report and Lateline programmes. She is based in Sydney.
- Peter Lloyd
Peter Lloyd is the South Asia correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Based in New Delhi, Lloyd reports for the Australian national broadcaster across all national and international radio and television news and current affairs programs.
- Antony Green
Antony Green is an election commentator for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). He is a data expert who has appeared on the ABC's election night television coverage since the 1993 federal election. Green holds two undergraduate degrees: a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and computing, and a Bachelor of Economics with honours in politics. Green worked as a data analyst in the computing industry and for a polling company before joining the ABC in 1989.
- Maxine McKew
Maxine McKew (born 1953) is an Australian Labor parliamentary candidate and former journalist. As a broadcaster, McKew hosted a number of programmes on Australian Broadcasting Corporation television and radio, most recently "Lateline" and "The 7.30 Report". In February 2007, McKew announced her candidacy for Bennelong, the federal parliamentary seat held by Prime Minister John Howard.
- Robyn Williams
Robyn Williams AM is an Australian science journalist and radio broadcaster who has been interviewer and host of the "Science Show" on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation since 1975, "Ockham's Razor" (created 1984) and "In Conversation" (created 1997). Williams is a Humanist
- Alan Kohler
Alan is one of Australia's most experienced financial journalists and commentators. He began as a cadet on The Australian covering the Poseidon boom and bust; has been a columnist for Chanticleer in the Australian Financial Review and Editor of the AFR. Alan has also served as Editor of The Age and for the past seven years he has been dividing his time between television, at the ABC's Inside Business and ABC News, and writing for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
- Peter Cave
Peter Cave is an experienced Australian journalist who has reported from dozens of countries. He has won 5 Walkley Awards and currently works for the ABC. He is from Newcastle in NSW. http://abc.net.au/aroundtheworld/content/s1059924.htm
- Ali Moore
Ali Moore is an Australian journalist. She began her career in 1987 as a cadet for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), where she was active in a number of programmes. In 1996 she moved to the Nine Network, where she was a reporter and eventually presenter of Business Sunday. She was also a fill-in host for Today on Saturday and the substitute for Tracy Grimmshaw from 1999 until 2003 on the weekday Today show.
- Elizabeth Jackson
Elizabeth Jackson is an Australian Broadcasting Corporation journalist and presenter of the "Saturday AM" programme on ABC Local Radio. She has previously worked on Sydney radio station 2GB, and for ABC Television's 7:30 Report and Lateline programmes. She is based in Sydney.
- John Williams
John Williams is an Australian scientist whose life work has been in the study of hydrology and the use of water in the landscape and farming, including land salinity. His story was told in part on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's TV documentary series, "Australian Story", on 6 June 2005. transcript
- Phillip Adams
Phillip Adams AO (born 26 July, 1939) is an Australian broadcaster, film producer, writer, humanist, social commentator and satirist.
- George Negus
George Negus (born 1942 in Brisbane) is an Australian author, journalist, and television presenter who has been hosting the "Dateline" current affairs programme for the SBS network since 2005. Negus studied Arts and journalism at the University of Queensland and was a high school teacher before writing for "The Australian" and "The Australian Financial Review". He became most prominent, however, as a reporter for "This Day Tonight", …
- Mark Scott
Mark Scott is the current Managing Director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He took up his position in July 2006, having previously been the Editorial Director at John Fairfax, responsible for the editorial content of the group's major newspapers including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Sun-Herald and The Sunday Age. He worked for the NSW Greiner Government, as chief of staff to the Education Minister, …
- Tim Blair
Tim Blair is a journalist, commentator and blogger working in Sydney, Australia. His columns and blog are generally written in a humorous style, from a conservative viewpoint. He was born in Werribee, Victoria. In 2004, the "Sydney Morning Herald" described Blair thus: "Blair, 39, is top dog among the new Australian digerati. He is a conservative political commentator.
- Shane McLeod
Shane David McLeod (born August 8 1975) is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Japan correspondent. McLeod grew up in Hervey Bay and studied journalism at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. He commenced his career at ABC's Brisbane radio newsroom and also worked in Gladstone, Longreach and Cairns before transferring to the radio current affairs Melbourne bureau in 1999 to report for the ABC's national programs AM, The World Today and PM.
- Leigh Sales
Leigh Sales is a journalist who works for the ABC, currently as National Security Correspondent based in Sydney, Australia. At the ABC, Ms. Sales has held positions in national radio current afairs, NSW political reporter (covering the 1999 and 2007 state elections and the 2000 Olympics) and the ABC's Washington correspondent commencing in December 2001 and ending in December 2005.
- Quentin Dempster
Quentin Dempster is an Australian journalist and author. He has worked in the industry for 30 years and has been employed by the ABC for 20. His most important contribution was his expose of police corruption in Queensland. He currently resides in Sydney, where he hosts 'NSW Stateline' and is a fill-in presenter for Lateline
- Paul McDermott
Paul McDermott (born May 13, 1962) is an Australian musical comedian and television host. Born in Adelaide, he grew up in Canberra, where he studied art after finishing high school. He began performing as a member of the Doug Anthony All Stars, along with Tim Ferguson and Richard Fidler, starting out as buskers and performing live in clubs. After success at the 1986 Adelaide Fringe Festival, they travelled to Britain for the Edinburgh Fringe festival.
- Andrew Bolt
Andrew Bolt (born September 26, 1959) is an Australian newspaper columnist and conservative pundit. Politically right wing, Bolt is a columnist and associate editor of the Melbourne-based "Herald Sun". He also writes for Brisbane's "Sunday Mail", and regularly appears on the Nine Network's "Today" programme and the weekly Australian Broadcasting Corporation panel programme, "Insiders" as well as Melbourne station 3AW.
- Chris Taylor
Christopher Thornton Taylor (born 1974) is an Australian television and radio comedian. As a member of The Chaser team, he is best known for his role on satirical ABC television shows CNNNN and The Chaser's War on Everything. He formerly co-hosted the drive radio show Today Today on Triple J with fellow Chaser member Craig Reucassel. He worked as a TV news reporter for ABC Melbourne before moving back to Sydney to work for The Chaser's newspaper full time.
- Virginia Trioli
Virginia Frances Trioli (born August 16 1964) is an Australian journalist and author. Born in Bendigo, she attended Donvale High School and graduated from Latrobe University in the 1980s, with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a Fine Arts major in cinema. She worked as a publicist for a book publisher, then at the Victorian Ethnic Affairs Commission prior to starting at The Age in 1990. For three years she was President of The Age's chapter of the union, …
- Janet Albrechtsen
Janet Albrechtsen commenced writing part-time in 1999, writing for the Sydney Morning Herald , The Age , the Australian Financial Review and Quadrant , and became a weekly contributor to The Australian in 2002. After receiving her law degree from the University of Adelaide, she moved to Sydney and worked as a commercial lawyer. She has a doctorate in law from the University of Sydney law school and has taught as an academic. She is a member of the Foreign Affairs Council.
- Paul Moran
Paul William Moran (May 30, 1963 - March 22, 2003) was an Australian Broadcasting Corporation cameraman and journalist. Born in Adelaide, Australia, he moved to London in 1990, subsequently traveled around Europe, met his wife Ivana Rapajic, and moved to Bahrain where Paul worked for international news organizations. In late 2002, Moran accepted an offer from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to work as a cameraman and editor in northern Iraq to cover the Iraq War.
- Donald McDonald
Donald Benjamin McDonald AC is an Australian arts administrator and between 1996 and 2006 was chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia's national public broadcaster. He has been involved in the administration of various arts enterprises for many years including the Sydney Theatre Company and Musica Viva Australia. He was chief executive of the Australian Opera Company for ten years until his retirement in December 1996.
- James O'Loghlin
James O'Loghlin is a Canberra born, Sydney-based presenter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Local Radio evening programme in New South Wales and the ACT. Previously a commercial and criminal lawyer (he studied law at the Australian National University), and later for some years a professional stand-up comedian, and writer and host of his own television show "O'Loghlin On Saturday Night" on ABC television, …
- Richard Fidler
Richard Fidler (born November 13, 1964) is a well-known Australian Republican and Australian ABC TV and radio presenter. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as a member of the Doug Anthony All Stars (DAAS), an Australian musical comedy group also comprising Tim Ferguson and Paul McDermott. The group split in 1994. Richard Fidler has since presented various TV shows, including "Race Around the World", "Aftershock", …
- Chris Lilley
Chris Lilley is an Australian comedian from Sydney. Lilley began his career performing stand-up in Sydney, and went on to star in "Big Bite" (2003) on Australia's Seven Network. He gained acclaim for his portrayal of the extreme sports enthusiast Extreme Darren and the high-school drama teacher Mr G, characters which he continued in "Hamish & Andy" (2004). He also made his film debut playing two tiny roles in Abe Forsythe's "Ned" (2003).
- Steve Austin
Steve Austin (born August 10 1960) is an Australian television broadcaster. In 2006 and 2007, Austin presents the 7pm-10pm (9pm in summer) shift on 612 ABC Brisbane and ABC Local Radio across Queensland. In 2004 and 2005, he presented the 8.30am-midday shift on ABC Local Radio with the final hour, 11am-midday, referred to as "The Conversation Hour" and broadcast around Queensland via the ABC Local Radio network.
- Monica Attard
Monica-Ann Attard OAM is an award-winning Australian journalist. She is of Maltese descent. She was educated at the Roman Catholic school Bethlehem College in Sydney. Her career in journalism began at Channel Seven. In 1983 Attard moved to the ABC, where she has remained since. She received a post as a foreign correspondent in Russia for four years, beginning in 1990. She received three Walkley Awards during this period, including the Gold Walkley in 1991.
- David Hill
David Hill is an Australian businessman who has held a number of high profile senior positions with public authorities in Australia. These include chief executive and director of the New South Wales State Rail Authority, chairman and managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, head of Soccer Australia, head of Sydney Water, …
- Chris Masters
Christopher "Chris" Wayne Masters PSM (born 4 December 1948 in Grafton, New South Wales) is a multi-Walkley Award winning and Logie Award winning Australian journalist and author. He is the son of Charles Masters and the journalist and author Olga Masters and the sibling of rugby league coach and journalist Roy Masters, film maker Quentin Masters, …
- Warren Boland
Warren James Boland (born Sydney, February 11, 1955), is a former science teacher and professional footballer (rugby league) who now presents weekend radio shows on ABC Local Radio stations across Queensland, Australia, broadcasting from the studios of 612 ABC Brisbane. Boland was captain of New South Wales rugby league team "Wests Magpies" (now part of the NRL 2005 premiership-winning joint-venture club "Wests Tigers").
- Kylie Kwong
Kylie Kwong (born 1969 in Australia), is a prominent Australian television chef, author, television presenter and restaurateur. As a fifth generation Australasian, she learned the art and fundamentals of Cantonese cooking, by her mother's side. She undertook much of her apprenticeship at Neil Perry's Rockpool and Wokpool and then at Restaurant Manifredi. Kylie Kwong has since opened the appropriately labelled 'Billy Kwong' restaurant, her first, …
- Barrie Cassidy
Barrie Cassidy is a veteran Australian political journalist. He has worked for the ABC Network as a foreign political correspondant and on local politics, reporting for radio and shows including "The 7.30 Report". He is currently the host of the Sunday morning political discussion show "Insiders", and the proceeding sports panel show "Offsiders".
- Terry Lane
Terry Lane is a radio broadcaster and newspaper columnist based in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in South Australia and educated at Gawler High School. After studying for the ministry at the Churches of Christ College of the Bible in Melbourne, Lane was a minister for six years before working in the Methodist Department of Christian Education and the ABC's religious department. He began a radio talk-back program for the ABC in Melbourne in 1977, …