Virginia Trioli Travels from Melbourne, VIC

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Two-time Walkley Award winner, Virginia Trioli is the presenter of ‘Creative Types’ on ABC TV and iView and is one of Australia’s best-known journalists, with a formidable reputation as a television anchor, radio presenter, writer and commentator.

An Honours graduate in Fine Arts from Melbourne and La Trobe Universities, Virginia is the author of A Bit on the Side: Reflections on What Makes Life Delicious (2024) and Generation F (1996), her celebrated response to Helen Garner’s ‘First Stone’.

Virginia has held senior positions at the Age newspaper and the Bulletin magazine; she has hosted ABC radio and television programs in Sydney and Melbourne, including Drive, Mornings, QandA, Lateline and 7.30, and was the founding anchor of ABC News Breakfast on ABC TV, which she co-hosted for 11 years.

She hosts the ABC podcast, You Don’t Know Me and writes her Weekend Reads column for ABC News online each Saturday.

In 1995 she won Australian journalism's highest honour, the Walkley Award, for her business reporting, and in 1999 won the Melbourne Press Club's Best Columnist award, The Quill. In 2001 she again won a Walkley Award for her interview with former Defence minister Peter Reith over the notorious Children Overboard issue.

In 2002 Virginia went to New York with ABC Radio PM’s Mark Colvin to co-host the ABC’s coverage of the first anniversary commemoration of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Centre. She appeared regularly on ABC TV’s “Insiders” analysing federal politics and is a frequent lecturer and public speaker.

Virginia is also an experienced Master of Ceremonies and Facilitator of forums and hypotheticals.