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Andrea Burns
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Testimonials for Andrea Burns
"Andrea was really well received as facilitator for our Perth event. We had great feedback from the two sessions she hosted. Also, she was very easy to work with. Excellent performance."
National E-Health Transition Authority – Perth forum.
"Andrea filled in for another MC at the last moment due to illness and she did an absolutely superb job as both MC and facilitator. With very little time for research she was totally across our conference theme and handled panel sessions with absolute professionalism and great interaction with the audience. We would have absolutely no hesitation in recommending Andrea to anyone seeking a truly professional MC who also has a wonderful sense of humour and is very easy to work with."
Dept of Families, Housing, Community Services & Indigenous Affairs.
“Excellent, excellent, excellent! Andrea was extremely easy to work with and we had fantastic feedback from all our attendees and board. She made the event personal and everyone felt they connected with her. If you want a personal touch as well as professionalism for your event I highly recommend Andrea. Apart from her professionalism, Andrea is an amazing person and we were very privileged to have worked with her. Thank you so much Andrea for your hard work at the event and for making the process so easy.”
Ashleigh Willer, Clubs WA Awards for Excellence.
Fee Range: Up to $5000
Andrea Burns's Biography
An award winning journalist, TV/radio presenter, MC/facilitator, accomplished presenter and course facilitator, Andrea is a familiar face to Western Australian audiences.
Andrea has a Post Graduate Diploma of Broadcasting at Edith Cowan University and as a TV journalist, Andrea has reported on some of the biggest stories to have made news over the past two decades. Andrea has also been a regular visitor to people’s lounge rooms, as back up host of both the top rating Today Tonight programme, and Channel Seven News.
Armed with a warm manner, a great sense of humour Andrea has easily endeared herself to the public. She mixes comfortably with everyone from senior business executives and political figures, right through to children.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Australia, Andrea was employed as a Training Officer by Aherns – now David Jones. Andrea learnt what it means to handle a crowd, by facilitating daily courses. Programmes ranged from inducting new employees to teaching managers how to get the best from their staff.
Eventually, the lure of journalism proved too strong and Andrea subsequently worked as a reporter, presenter and producer in both news and current affairs over the past 25 years. She has worked with Seven and Ten Networks, ABC and Radio 6PR, and was an opinion columnist for The West Australian.
Andrea was “head hunted” to join Seven News and Andrea proved her worth, as both a reporter and occasional presenter.
Over a period of six years, Andrea was a popular member of the Today Tonight team. Highlights included a week-long odyssey deep into the jungle of Indonesia, to report on the release of Temara, a Perth Zoo orangutan, being released back into the wild – a world exclusive. As well, Andrea grabbed the opportunity to interview Imelda Marcus after happening upon her in a Manila hotel, while in the Philippines filming a story about foreign workers coming to Australia.
These days, Andrea happily juggles her various media commitments, with work presenting, writing and media training private clients. She is also a Course Coordinator – Post Graduate Diploma of Broadcasting at Edith Cowan University
Andrea is also a much in demand MC/facilitator for corporate and government conferences, awards evenings, seminars etc.