About

ABC News 24 is Australia’s most watched news channel and provides live, continuous news coverage of breaking stories from Australia and around the world.

In addition to rolling news, ABC News 24 programming provides more coverage of world news, national politics, sport and business, as well as regular updates on the arts, health, finance and a range of other specialist areas.

ABC News 24 was launched in July, 2010 and is Australia’s first, free-to-air 24-hour television news channel. ABC News 24 is designed for all digital platforms enabling you to know what’s going on in your world now – on TV, online and on mobile – becoming a leader in multi-platform delivery.  

The 24/7 news channel is available on the digital free-to-air Channel 24 and is a HD service. TV viewers need a HD-compatible digital TV or set-top box. ABC News 24 is also available on Channel 202 on Foxtel and Channel 24 on Austar.

ABC News 24 is streamed online at www.abc.net.au/abcnews24, on iView and now on YouTube.   You can also watch ABC News 24 on your smart phone.

In an Australian first, ABC News 24 has integrated the channel into YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, so you can now watch live news within your favourite social network.

To watch ABC News 24 within YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, embed the YouTube live stream or go to www.youtube.com/NewsOnABC to watch ABC News 24.

To find out more, view our ABC News 24 YouTube Live promo. 

Join the ABC News 24 conversation on Facebook at www.facebook.com/abcnews24.au on Twitter and YouTube.

Presenters
Virginia Trioli Virginia Trioli is the co-host of ABC News Breakfast, and has been presenting the program since its launch in November, 2008.  A two-time Walkley Award winner, Virginia has an established reputation as a radio host, television presenter, news reporter, features writer and columnist.   Virginia joined ABC Local Radio in 2001 from The Bulletin, and for eight years hosted the Drive Program on 774 ABC Melbourne, and the Morning Program on 702 ABC Sydney.  Virginia also presented Lateline on Friday nights in Sydney, and was a regular TV contributor on Insiders and Sunday Arts on ABC TV.  Prior to broadcasting Virginia spent nine years as a news reporter, features writer, assistant news editor and columnist in Melbourne.  Virginia is the author of 'Generation F: Sex, Power and the Young Feminist' published in 1996.
Michael Rowland Michael Rowland has presented ABC News Breakfast since the launch of ABC News 24 in July 2010. Before that Michael spent four years as an ABC correspondent in Washington. He covered the historic US presidential election and was the ABC's Wall Street correspondent during the height of the global financial crisis. Michael has also worked for Lateline as business and economics correspondent and prior to that spent five years covering finance for AM, The World Today, PM, The Midday Report, Inside Business and the 7pm TV News. In the mid 1990s Michael spent five years in the ABC's Parliament House bureau in Canberra filing for Radio News and Lateline.
Joe O’Brien Joe O’Brien is the host of ABC News 24's morning and lunchtime news programs. Before that, Joe was co-host on ABC News Breakfast, with Virginia Trioli. Joe has more than 20 years' experience in journalism and has been a reporter and presenter with the ABC since 1995. Joe has presented the 7pm ABC News bulletins in both Queensland and New South Wales, and regularly fronted the national Midday Report.
Lyndal Curtis Lyndal Curtis is the Political Editor for ABC News 24 and leads the channel's coverage of Federal politics. Lyndal has reported on Federal politics for nearly twenty years and has worked for ABC Radio News, Radio Current Affairs, TV News, Radio National and ABC Online. She has reported on five Prime Ministers, seven elections and more budgets than she cares to count and has covered Prime Ministerial and Ministerial visits to a number of different countries. She spent five years running the Canberra ABC Newsroom as State Editor and returned to political reporting in May 2008 as Chief Political Correspondent for AM, The World Today and PM. Lyndal also hosts ABC News 24's daily Capital Hill program from Parliament House.
Kim Landers Kim Landers is the presenter of Afternoon Live, the weekday afternoon news and analysis program on ABC News 24. Kim spent five years as the ABC's North America Correspondent in Washington, covering the last years of the Bush presidency and the first years of the US under Barack Obama. She has also worked in the Canberra Parliament House press gallery, as well as the ABC Brisbane newsroom, across television and radio news and current affairs. On Kim's return from America, she covered the Queensland floods and Cyclone Yasi for ABC News 24 team and for the ABC1 news.
Juanita Phillips Juanita Phillips is the presenter of the evening news bulletin on ABC News 24, and the 7pm bulletin on ABC1 in NSW. Juanita returned to Australia from London in 2002 to join the ABC. She was co-anchor with CNN International in London, where she worked for four years in a variety of frontline roles presenting rolling news and business programs. She was in the anchor's chair during events such as the Kosovo War, the Allied bombing campaign against Iraq, the Turkish earthquake and the fall of Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic. Before that, Juanita worked for the BBC as a co-anchor on international news programs. She presented coverage of the funeral of the Princess of Wales and was a regular host of BBC World's The World Today. Juanita is the author of a book, A Pressure Cooker Saved My Life.
Jane Hutcheon Jane Hutcheon presents the interview program One Plus One and also presents the news on Friday mornings on ABC News 24. She's an experienced journalist and presenter and is a former foreign correspondent. She began her career in radio and television in Hong Kong then at SBS Television before joining the ABC. From 1995 to 2001 Jane was ABC China Correspondent based in Beijing. After returning to Australia, she presented the World At Noon on ABC TV, which included live coverage of the September 11 attacks. From 2003-2005 she was the ABC's Middle East Correspondent and Europe Correspondent from 2005 to 2008, based in London. At various times Jane has presented Lateline, the 7pm News and Foreign Correspondent. She's the author of From Rice to Riches, a book about being a China correspondent.
Jeremy Fernandez Jeremy Fernandez presents the weekend and Monday evening news on ABC News 24 . Jeremy has been a regular presenter of the 7pm bulletin on ABC1 in NSW. He joined the ABC in 2000, working as a casual producer for ABC Local Radio during the Sydney Olympics, as well as other Local Radio stints in Albany, Western Australia. Since then Jeremy has worked as a journalist and producer in Perth, Melbourne, and London. He has hosted the morning edition of ABC News on Australia Network, broadcast across the Asia-Pacific, as well as producing rolling news, interviews, and in-depth reports on a host of major stories.
Annabel Crabb Annabel Crabb is one of Australia's most popular political commentators and ABC Online's Chief Political Writer. She is a regular contributor to ABC News 24. With her unique style of writing and natural wit, Annabel provides distinctive observations and analysis in her reporting on political events of the day. She has been a journalist for more than 12 years, covering national politics for 10. Before she became a journalist, Annabel completed arts and law degrees at the University of Adelaide but decamped when a legal career threatened to become a reality.
Steve Cannane Steve Cannane presents the daily discussion program The Drum on ABC News 24. Steve has worked as a reporter, producer and presenter for ABC TV and radio. He was the founding presenter of triple j's current affairs program Hack. In 2006 he won a Walkley Award for Broadcast Interviewing. Steve has also won the Excellence in Drug and Alcohol Media Reporting Award at the National Drug and Alcohol Awards. In 2008 Steve presented The Hack Half Hour on ABC2. In 2009 he fronted the ABC1 documentary series Whatever - The Science of Teenagers. In 2009 Steve published a book First Tests: Great Australian Cricketers and the Backyards That Made Them.
Paul Kennedy Paul Kennedy is the national sports presenter on ABC News Breakfast and presents sports news through the morning on ABC News 24. He is a senior television journalist, with 15 years news reporting experience. He has covered some of the biggest stories in Australia for networks Ten, Nine and the ABC. A former state league footballer, his coverage of the issue of drugs in sport has been a career highlight. He has written and directed a film called Drug Game, which was a Melbourne International Film Festival finalist.
Vanessa O'Hanlon Vanessa O'Hanlon is the national weather presenter for ABC News Breakfast. Prior to this, Vanessa worked in a variety of roles in radio, including breakfast co-host and newsreader through parts of the Northern Territory and regional Victoria before returning home to Melbourne as a traffic reporter for commercial radio. In her varied broadcasting career, Vanessa has worked as a voice-over artist, radio presenter and MC for large public events.
Graham Creed Graham Creed presents the weather in the weekday afternoons and evenings on ABC News 24 and is the weather presenter for the 7pm news on ABC1 in NSW. He began his weather career in Melbourne at the Bureau of Meteorology in 1985. At the bureau, Graham undertook intense training in weather observation and radar and upper atmospheric conditions. He spent 10 years working in the field with the bureau in Moree, Wagga Wagga and Lord Howe Island.
Whitney Fitzsimmons Whitney Fitzsimmons hosts the Business Today program on ABC News 24 and on Australia Network. Previously, she presented news for Australia Network, worked as a senior producer for Lateline and reported on stories for the ABC's domestic news service. Before joining the ABC, Whitney worked as a freelance reporter and producer for the Seven Network, Sky News Australia, and commercial radio stations. She also spent two years as a reporter and producer for the global financial network CNBC.
Ticky Fullerton Ticky Fullerton presents The Business on ABC News 24 and Lateline Business on ABC1. Ticky joined the ABC in 1995. For five years she was an investigative reporter for Four Corners and has been both a business and political reporter for Lateline and the presenter of Landline. In 2004 Ticky won the Australian Government Peter Hunt Eureka Prize for Environmental Journalism. Prior to her career in journalism, Ticky was an associate director with investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston. Ticky wrote Watershed, the first comprehensive book on the challenges facing Australia's water resources. She is a director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Irrigation Futures. Ticky has a law degree from Oxford University.
Peter Wilkins Peter Wilkins presents Grandstand on ABC News 24, Monday to Thursday at 7.30pm (AEDT). Peter has worked for the ABC for the last 31 years as a presenter, commentator and reporter in both television and radio. He has broadcast innumerable sports and at various times has been the ABC’s chief soccer commentator (hosting two World Cup finals in ‘82 and ’86) and headed up the radio rugby league coverage for nine years, making three Kangaroo tours to the UK. He’s covered Olympic and Paralympic games, four World Cup football tournaments and was a regular member of ABC TV’s Hopman Cup tennis coverage for almost 10 years. ‘Wilko’ presented the ABC TV News’ national sport segment from 2003 to 2010 before taking up the role as Network Sports Reporter for programs including the 7pm News, The 7.30 Report, Lateline and ABC News 24. In 2008 Peter published his first book, “Don’t Rock The Boat” - the inside story of the Australian women’s rowing eight at the Athens Olympics. He subsequently won a Walkley Award for the Australian Story feature which had its genesis from the book.
Miriam Corowa Miriam Corowa co-presents Weekend Breakfast with Andrew Geoghegan from 8am (AEDT). Miriam has been with the ABC since 2006, when she joined the Indigenous documentary program, Message Stick, as a producer. From 2008 to 2010, Miriam presented the program, as well as presenting other special ABC broadcasts, such as the ‘Apology’ in Canberra in 2008, and hosting the ABC’s coverage of the ANZAC Dawn and Lone Pine Services from Gallipoli, for the past three years Prior to joining the ABC, Miriam started her television career with SBS in 2000, where she joined the Indigenous television program, ICAM. In 2003, following a 12-month cadetship with SBS Television’s World News service, Miriam was appointed as a producer and presenter for the SBS World News website. In 2005, Miriam reported for SBS TV World News where she covered events ranging from local to national and international significance, including reporting on the London train bombings of July 2005.
Andrew Geoghegan Two-time Walkley Award winner Andrew Geoghegan co-presents ABC News 24's Weekend Breakfast program alongside Miriam Corowa. Previously, Andrew was the ABC's Africa correspondent for four-and-a-half years, covering the continent's major stories such as the lawlessness of Somalia and the conflict in Darfur. He worked undercover in Zimbabwe on many occasions, despite being banned from reporting there. Andrew exposed the failure of both the Mugabe Government and United Nations in preventing the cholera outbreak. The story won a Walkley Award and a UN Correspondents Association medal. Andrew's 2009 investigation of the international adoption business in Ethiopia was also recognised with a Walkley Award and led to a change in adoption practices. His work has also been acknowledged with UN Australia Media Peace awards.
John Barron John Barron is an ABC journalist and broadcaster who has covered US politics for 20 years. He is the author of an acclaimed book about the historic 2008 race for the White House called "Vote for Me" and also teaches at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. As well as appearing on Planet America, John hosts a weekly radio show on US politics for ABC NewsRadio and is working on a documentary film on the legacy of Ronald Reagan.
Matt Cargill Matt Cargill is the host of ABC News 24's news and social media program News Exchange. Matt began his radio and television career in Gippsland in Victoria. He was a reporter and presenter for television stations in NSW, Victoria and Canberra. In 2003 Matt moved to London where he worked as a producer for CNN International. He covered a variety of stories including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the bombings in Madrid and London and the Haiti earthquake in 2010 Matt was also the producer of the topical discussion program International Correspondents. Matt returned to Australia to work on the launch of ABC News 24. He is a supervising producer and now also presents News Exchange.
Tim Palmer Tim Palmer is a senior ABC journalist and presenter, who currently splits his work duties, hosting The Drum, and reporting for 7.30. A multi-award winning journalist, Tim is most well known for his work as a foreign correspondent. In December 2005, Tim collected the highest journalistic honour - the Gold Walkley for his Aceh tsunami disaster coverage. Tim was the first foreign correspondent in the world to enter Aceh after the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004. As the ABC’s Indonesia correspondent, Tim also covered the Bali bombing. From 1999 to 2002 Tim was the ABC’s Middle East correspondent based in Jerusalem and Amman, winning his first Walkley Award for his coverage of the collapse of the peace process into the second Palestinian intifada. After returning from Jakarta in 2006, Tim has been executive producer of a number of programs, including The World Today, Lateline and Lateline Business and in 2007 was executive producer of Media Watch.
Jim Middleton Jim Middleton presents the Newsline program on ABC News 24 and Australia Network. Jim has been Australia Network's chief current affairs anchor since 2008. He joined Australia's international television service after a distinguished career as one of the senior statesmen in the federal parliamentary press gallery in Canberra. An ABC journalist since 1970, he has four decades' experience as a correspondent, focusing on political and international reporting. For six years, at the height of the Reagan era, he was a foreign correspondent in New York and Washington. He was present at US President Reagan's first two summits with Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev, saw Alan Bond's Australia II win the America's Cup in 1983 and reported the Falklands war from Argentina. From 1988 until the end of 2007, Jim was ABC TV's Political Editor based in Canberra.