Current Affairs Presenters

Billed as the "godfather of the Australian film industry", Phillip Adams was elected one of Australia's 100 National Living Treasures in the inaugural ... more

Waleed Aly is an Australian lawyer, Muslim, academic and rock musician. He has been a member of the executive committee of the Islamic Council of Vict ... more

Paul Barry is an award-winning journalist and a best-selling author with a formidable reputation for uncovering scandal, investigating crime, exposing ... more

Peter Beattie was the 36th Premier of Queensland for nine years and leader of the Australian Labor Party in that state for eleven and a half years. Hi ... more

Fatima Bhutto is a highly accomplished and entertaining speaker. At fourteen-years-old Fatima Bhutto hid in a windowless dressing room, shielding her ... more

Cherie Blair, noted British attorney, human rights advocate, and the wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair, is a trailblazer in her professional life and ... more

Gina Boon has anchored some of Australia's top-rating news and feature programs with a 15 year television career spanning The Nine Network and The Sev ... more

Steve Bracks became one of Victoria's most successful Premiers winning three consecutive elections including achieving record majorities in the 2002 a ... more

Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan and Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout were held hostage for 462 days in Somalia. Four days after arriving i ... more

Jenny Brockie is one of Australia's most experienced and respected broadcasters and television documentary makers. Jenny currently hosts Insight on SB ... more

Warren Brown has been a full-time editorial newspaper cartoonist since the 80's and is currently cartoonist for the Sydney 'Daily Telegraph'. He's al ... more

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George Prescott Bush is the eldest of three children of former Florida governor Jeb Bush; the nephew of the 43rd President of the United States, Georg ... more

Fred Chaney AO is a former Western Australian politician who, until April 2007, held the position of deputy chairman of the Australian Native Title Tr ... more

Indonesian-born Lee Lin Chin grew up and went to school in Singapore. Her media career began in broadcasting there in both television and radio in 19 ... more

Noam Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. Most rec ... more

Philip has been, variously: a lawyer, a journalist, a Federal Ministerial adviser and a radio broadcaster. In these roles Philip introduced longstandi ... more

Long known as one of the hard-liners against terrorists, Richard Clarke served US presidents as a senior White House advisor. He was named the counter ... more

The presenter of ABC Radio's current affairs program PM, Mark Colvin has almost given his life for his job. An award winning journalist, Mark first j ... more

Natalia Cooper is a weather presenter, news reader and journalist for Channel Seven Perth. She writes daily news updates and continues to work as a jo ... more

Anna Coren is a reporter for Seven News and Today Tonight, and presenter of Today Tonight's east coast Summer Edition. Anna launched her on-air role ... more

Tim Costello is one of Australia's leading voices on social justice issues. Tim Costello's taken a prominent role in national debates on issues such a ... more

Satyajit Das is an international specialist in the area of financial derivatives, risk management, and capital markets. Since 1994, Das has acted ... more

Bob Dole, one of the United States' most prominent political figures of the 20th century, has a distinguished record of public service that continues ... more

Geraldine Doogue is a renowned Australian journalist and broadcaster. With a unique approach - making complex issues accessible - Geraldine tackles su ... more

Alexander Downer has earned respect all around the World as a man committed to making the World a better place and has enhanced Australia's position i ... more

In her 20 years as a journalist, Ellen Fanning has reported from locations as diverse as the North Pole, the White House, an airline refuelling fighte ... more

Pat Farmer is Australia's leading ultra-marathon runner having competed in and completed the TRANSAMERICA FOOTRACE twice. The race is regarded as the ... more

Fordham is the youngest reporter in history to win a Walkley-Award double. His achievements were recognised on Australia Day 1998 with a Young Citizen ... more

Sir David is a hugely popular name worldwide and still holds the record for having interviewed seven US Presidents and seven British Prime Ministers w ... more

Ticky Fullerton is a reporter for ABC television's Four Corners programme. In her eleven years with the ABC, Ticky has been the presenter for Landline ... more

Professor Geoff Gallop was born in Geraldton, Western Australia. He was a graduate of the University of WA, Oxford ( as a Rhodes Scholar ) and Murdo ... more

Rob Gell is an outstanding communicator who has earned the respect of government, business, and environmental groups for his approach to sustainable d ... more

Former Mayor of New York City and TIME Magazine's Man of the Year 2001, Rudy Giuliani has proved to be one of the world's most effective leaders. Unde ... more

As debt, the deficit and reigniting the global economic engine dominate conversations around the world, Austan Goolsbee—who served as one of Pres ... more

Mikhail Gorbachev has been one of the twentieth century's most pivotal leaders. As President of the Soviet Union, he ended the fifty years of nuclear ... more

Pru Goward served as Executive Director of the Office of the Status of Women from 1997-2001. In July 2001, she became the Federal Sex Discrimination C ... more

Karla Grant has dedicated a huge part of her career to working in Indigenous news and current affairs, witnessing and reporting on the shifts in polic ... more

Dateline presenter and video journalist Yalda Hakim came to Australia after her father smuggled his young family out of Afghanistan on horseback to es ... more

Marieke Hardy is a screenwriter, radio host, columnist, bon vivant and award-winning blogger. From inauspicious beginnings as a lisping child actor i ... more

Can today's women really 'have it all', or have we all been duped? When did the superwomen of the 80s become the wondering women of the new millennium ... more

Elizabeth Hayes is one of Australia's most popular television journalists, best known for her ten years as co-host of the Nine Network's award winning ... more

Dr John Hewson is a leading authority on economics and finance with experience in academia, business, government, media and financial systems. John ha ... more

John Howard's leadership, determination and vision are hallmarks of a career navigated during an era of unprecedented prosperity and change. As prime ... more

In eight years covering sport, Craig has developed his own unique style to sports reporting and is a popular and recognisable figure amongst the Austr ... more

Tony is one of Australia's most acclaimed journalists, winning four awards including four of Australia's leading journalism awards, the Walkleys. Jone ... more

Ros Kelly has one of the highest profiles of any woman in Australia. As Australia's only woman in the Federal Cabinet for four years, she has re-writt ... more

Lauded by Successful Meetings magazine as a man whose message supercedes his golden name, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivers with earnestness and obvious ... more

Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Fairfax newspaper publishing group in August 2005, and formally assumed the position in October 2005. Prior to ... more

Deborah Knight is one of the rare talents in the Australian media, successfully combining a Network Presenting role with reporting, and live coverage, ... more

Recipient of Australia's most-coveted honour for journalism, the Walkley Award, and a household name from his days with 60 Minutes, he is a name that ... more

One of the nation's most respected broadcasters and TV-anchors. Co-hosting the long-running Nine Network Today program since it was launched in 1982, ... more

Catherine Lim is a writer in Singapore. She has published nine collections of short stories, seven novels and a book of poems. Two of her short story ... more

Journalist, documentary maker and author of 'The Spirit of Kokoda ... Then & Now'. Patrick Lindsay has had leading roles on nine of the top rating sho ... more

Charlie Lynn served in the Australian Army for 21 years. This included tours of duty in Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and as an Exchange Officer with ... more

Wendy McCarthy has broken many glass ceilings on her professional journey from the classroom to the boardroom. She has assumed major leadership roles ... more

Simon McKeon is an Australian businessman, philanthropist and sportsman. On 25 January 2011 he was named Australian of the Year for 2011 by Prime Mini ... more

An ABC foreign correspondent for almost two decades, a prize winning Four Corners documentary maker, the longest serving Sixty Minutes reporter, and n ... more

Glenn Milne is one of Australia's most respected political commentators and authors and is a very engaging speaker, using humour and authority in equa ... more

Over many years of journalism and public life George Negus has become one of Australia's best known faces and witty, well informed provocateur. George ... more

Christine Nixon is the head of the Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority, an authority created to rebuild communities following Vic ... more

As one of Australia's foremost political commentators, Laurie Oakes' career in journalism spans more than 30 years. Laurie is renowned for his incisiv ... more

Highly-regarded television presenter Bruce Paige joined Channel Nine Queensland in 1985 and spent 19 years presenting Nine News. Paige commenced his ... more

Lord Patten was appointed Governor of Hong Kong in April 1992, a position he held until 1997, over seeing the return of Hong Kong to China. He was Cha ... more

Francois Pienaar, with twenty nine international caps to his name, reached the highest peak in rugby union: he captained his country South Africa, to ... more

Based on a combination of his vast knowledge of current affairs, politics, sport, finance and news, Steve is a highly sought after MC and spokesperson ... more

Chris Reason will present Sunday Sunrise in 2004 after a year that saw him successfully battle cancer for a second time before returning to his televi ... more

Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland was appointed United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in 1997, responsible for the human rights a ... more

Naomi is most well-known in Australia for her role as presenter/anchor of Today Tonight. Naomi left Australian TV screens and has since been hard at w ... more

Although best known for his work on CNNNN and The Chaser newspaper, Craig Reucassel has had a long and distinguished career in radio. Reucassel bega ... more

Perhaps the best way to describe Bernard is that he is one of Australia's best communicators. Bernard has established an international reputation as a ... more

Peter Shergold is the Macquarie Group Foundation Professor at the Centre for Social Impact (CSI). CSI is a cross-university collaboration between the ... more

Sichan Siv embodies the classic American dream come true. A refugee from Cambodia, he came to United States in 1976 with nothing but an education, and ... more

Jim Soorley was born in northern NSW in 1951. He was educated at the local primary school and then as a boarder at Woodlawn, outside of Lismore, run b ... more

David Speers is one of Australia's leading political journalists. As Sky News Australia's Political Editor he hosts "PM Agenda" each weekday and regu ... more

Tracey Spicer is one of the most experienced and respected female news presenters on Australian television, with a career spanning 20 years, encompass ... more

Joe was based in Hong Kong from 1990 to 1993 and in Beijing from 1993 to 2000. In the course of the 1990s he wrote or co-wrote 10 books on China under ... more

There simply is no one else in australia who has been across Health more than Dr. Norman Swan. Norman was one of the first medically qualified journal ... more

Terry Tamminen is the man behind Arnold Schwarzenneger's historic Green Initiatives. He was featured in Time Magazine's "Global Warming Survival Guide ... more

Lindsay Tanner practised as a lawyer prior to serving as Victorian Secretary of the Federated Clerks Union and before entering Federal Parliament in 1 ... more

Dr Shashi Tharoor is Chairman of Dubai-based Afras Ventures; a prize-winning author of ten books, both fiction and non-fiction; and a widely-published ... more

With a media career spanning thirty years, Carmel Travers has become a familiar face and voice for radio and television audiences across Australia. F ... more

Imagine… a world committed to peace. A world in which everyone lives together as family, where everyone is loved, heard, cared for and unique. A ... more

Max Walsh is one of Australia's top economic and political commentators. His career has encompassed positions with two of Australia's largest publishi ... more

International Public Policy Analyst, Media Commentator and Presenter Tim is one of Australia's most challenging opinion makers drawing on strong philo ... more

No one is better briefed on US national and homeland security than R. James Woolsey. Using his considerable expertise and detailed research, James off ... more