Award-winning journalist, author and commentator
Madonna King is one of Australia’s most accomplished journalists, having worked at senior levels at News Limited and the ABC, where she presented the Mornings program in Brisbane for six years. She writes for Fairfax, including a highly successful weekly column, and contributes to its Good Weekend magazine. She has written seven books, all defined by her skillful reporting and her ability to get people to talk in depth. These include the recently-released Being 14, and biographies of Professor Ian Frazer, who was behind the cervical cancer vaccine, and Joe Hockey, now Australia’s Ambassador to Washington.
Talks and Panels
East West Street: Philippe Sands in conversation with Madonna King
Recorded at the Integrity 20’16 Program Launch, August 2016
Writers Under Arrest
Freedom of speech and state censorship
With Ma Thida, Rafael Marques de Morais, Peter Greste, Sakdiyah Ma’ruf and Madonna King (Host)
Extinguishing Extremism with Comedy
With Sakdiyah Ma’ruf and Madonna King (Host)
Towards a Good Anthropocene
Towards a Good Anthropocene Panel with Andrew Revkin, Pavan Sukhdev, Andrew MacLeod and Moderator Madonna King.