Kerry O'Brien

Born: 1945-08-27

Kerry O’Brien is a prominent Australian journalist and author whose long career includes 28 years as a national current affairs television presenter and interviewer. He has specialised in politics, but has also built a strong base in economics and business journalism, as well as investigative reporting. He has interviewed presidents and prime ministers across the world. Kerry has worked for every free to air television network, but has spent more than 30 years in public broadcasting. He cut his teeth on trail-blazing ABC current affairs programs like This Day Tonight, and Four Corners, and was the first presenter of the ground-breaking late night news analysis program, Lateline. He was also Editor and Presenter of the National 7.30 Report for 15 years. He has written two books - Keating, on former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating, and more recently Kerry O’Brien, A Memoir, focussing on the social and political upheavals he has witnessed in half a century of journalism. Over decades he has also built a strong body of conference work as a speaker, moderator and interviewer.


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Being Me

as Self - Presenter
Released: 2014-11-17

Candid interviews with transgender youths like 10 year old Isabelle Langley take us into the...

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Four Corners

as Himself - Host
First aired: 1961-08-19

Four Corners is Australia's longest-running investigative journalism/current affairs television...

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Q&A

as Self - Panellist
First aired: 2008-05-22

Hosted by Hamish Macdonald, Q&A puts punters, pollies and pundits together in the studio to...

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Who Do You Think You Are?

as Self
First aired: 2008-01-13

Australian celebrities play detective as they go in search of their family history, revealing...

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Keating: The Interviews

as uncredited
First aired: 2013-11-12

Candid interview series with Kerry O'Brien revealing the forces that shaped Paul Keating's...

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