Geraldine Doogue AO

Geraldine Doogue is a renowned Australian journalist and broadcaster with a long career in print, television and radio. She is now a co-presenter, with Hamish Macdonald, of the podcast and RN program Global Roaming, which focusses each week on international developments that influence Australia’s place in the world.

Doogue presented RN’s Saturday Extra for 18 years, which specialised in foreign policy and regional issues. She has worked for The West Australian, The Australian, 2UE, Channel Ten News and covered the Gulf War for ABC News in 1991, receiving a United Nations Media Peace Price and two Penguin awards. She set up the influential social affairs programme Life Matters on Radio National in 1993, hosted ABC TV’s Nationwide in the 1980s and presented Australia’s long-standing religious affairs programme Compass on ABC TV for almost 20 years until 2019. Doogue was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for social and cultural reporting in 2000, co-authored “Tomorrow’s Islam: Uniting Age-Old Beliefs and A Modern World" (2005), and released “The Climb: Conversations with Australian Women In Power” in 2014.

She has received several Honorary Doctorates of Letters from various Australian universities and was awarded an Officer in the Order of Australia awards for distinguished service on ethics, values, religion and social change. She was admitted to the Australian Media Hall of Fame in 2018.