Hamish Macdonald

Hamish Macdonald is an award-winning journalist who has covered wars, disasters, and major world events. He is host of Mornings on ABC Sydney, co-host of ‘Global Roaming’ on Radio National and ‘The Project’ on Channel Ten.

Hamish has won numerous awards including a Walkley for current affairs journalism. In 2024 he won the EU-Qantas Journalism Prize and the Elizabeth O’Neill Journalism Award. Global Roaming was named Best News Podcast by Radio Today. He was also previously named Young Journalist of the Year by Britain’s Royal Television Society.

Hamish has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Libya and Ukraine, the nuclear disaster in Japan, uprisings in Hong Kong and Egypt, the London bombings and the rise of ISIS in Iraq.

Outside of Australia he has worked for Channel 4 News in the UK, Al Jazeera English, and America’s ABC where he was International Affairs Correspondent.

In 2016 he became a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. In 2025 he was appointed to the ANU’s National Security College as an Expert Associate.

Hamish is Patron of the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation and Ambassador for Dementia Australia.