Virginia Trioli
Journalist, Keynote Speaker and MC
Virginia Trioli is a three-time Walkley Award–winning journalist and one of Australia’s most accomplished broadcasters. A highly sought-after speaker and MC, she brings authority, clarity and wit to live events, with unrivalled experience leading conversations on leadership, politics and contemporary issues.
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Virginia Trioli is one of Australia’s most respected and recognisable journalists, a three-time Walkley Award winner with a formidable reputation as a television anchor, radio presenter, writer and commentator. Renowned for her rigorous interviewing style and wicked sense of humour, she is also a highly sought-after speaker and MC.
An honours graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, Virginia published Generation F in 1996, her celebrated response to Helen Garner’s The First Stone. She won Australian journalism’s highest honour, the Walkley Award, in 1995 for business reporting and again in 2001 for her landmark interview with former Defence Minister Peter Reith over the Children Overboard affair. Her accolades also include the Melbourne Press Club’s Best Columnist award (The Quill) and Broadcaster of the Year at the ABC Local Radio Awards.
Virginia has held senior roles at The Age and The Bulletin, hosted ABC Radio’s flagship Drive and Morning programs in Melbourne and Sydney, and anchored major ABC TV programs including 7.30, Lateline, ABC News Breakfast (as founding co-host for 11 years), and Q&A. She currently hosts Creative Types with Virginia Trioli, the podcast You Don’t Know Me, and writes Weekend Reads for ABC News.
