Kerry O'Brien

Kerry OBrien 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 trailblazing ABC current affairs programs like This Day Tonight and Four Corners and was the first presenter of the groundbreaking late night news analysis program Lateline He was also Editor and Presenter of the National 730 Report for 15 years He has written two books Keating on former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating and more recently Kerry OBrien 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