Kerry O’Brien
Australia

Kerry O’Brien is one of Australia’s most respected journalists, with six Walkley awards including the Gold Walkley and the Walkley for Outstanding Leadership in journalism.
In a career spanning over fifty years, Kerry has worked for newspapers, television and a wire service, and as a foreign correspondent. Thirty-three of those years were at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation where he cut his teeth on the trail-blazing current affairs programs This Day Tonight and Four Corners. He was the inaugural presenter of Lateline for six years, the editor and presenter of 7.30 for 15 years, and the presenter of Four Corners.
His acclaimed four-part interview series with Paul Keating was broadcast on the ABC in 2013, and resulted in his best-selling book, Keating, published in 2015.
Kerry has specialised in national politics for the ABC as well as the Seven and Ten television networks, and was a press secretary to Labor leader Gough Whitlam.
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Talks, conversations and panels
Freedom and the fourth estate
Kerry O’Brien, Jodie Ginsberg, Matthew Condon
25 Oct 2019
Kerry O’Brien in Conversation with Madonna King
Kerry O’Brien, Madonna King
26 Nov 2018