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Professor Monica Attard OAM
PrintWalkley award winning journalist
Professor Monica Attard OAM spent 28 years at the ABC, working across radio and television. Monica holds a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Law, Order of Australia for services to journalism and is the winner of 5 Walkley Awards for excellence in journalism (including gold).
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Testimonials for Professor Monica Attard OAM
Monica was very well received by the audience and her high public profile generated interest in our event. She engaged with the audience and managed the panel discussion well.
NCOSS - Council of Social Service NSW
Monica Attard was extremely well received by our audience. She was very well prepared, and able to read and manage the room to ensure everyone was heard and the debate moved. Monica was totally professional and very accommodating - a real pleasure to work with as well.
Elanco Animal Health
Monica was very well received by our audience and provided very insightful and knowledgeable facilitation of the event. She was very well prepared and adeptly steered discussion across a range of issues in a complex topic area. She is a very skilled and professional facilitator.
COAG Reform Council
Monica was a warm and welcoming MC/Facilitator, who was very encouraging of all participants. She had researched the topic well and asked excellent questions that started the panel discussion in a very interesting and inclusive style. Monica was very approachable, and clearly and implicitly incorporated the key messages for the evening into the delivery of her introduction and panel discussion questions. We were delighted that the lecture and discussion evening worked so well and are confident that Monica made a valuable contribution to this success.
Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute
Monica was approachable and engaged making her very easy to work with. Her style is polished and professional yet relaxed. She kept proceedings on track and organised while being genuinely interested in the event's content.
2013 Green Globe Awards
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Professor Monica Attard OAM's Biography
Walkley award winning journalist
Professor Monica Attard OAM spent 28 years at the ABC, working across radio and television. Monica holds a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Law, Order of Australia for services to journalism and is the winner of 5 Walkley Awards for excellence in journalism (including gold).
She is best-known for hosting some of the ABC’s flagship programs, including PM, The World Today and Media Watch, and being a reporter and foreign correspondent for AM. A journalist for 35 years, she has also been a TV and radio reporter, including for Four Corners and Lateline, a foreign correspondent and was the foundation editor of the website, The Global Mail.
She was the ABC’s Russia correspondent at possibly the best time in modern history to be a Russia correspondent. She reported on the coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, the collapse of Soviet communism, the rise of Boris Yeltsin and his peculiar brand of capitalism and democracy, the first Chechen war and she covered civil wars across the old Soviet Union.
Four years of covering the revolution left her with just enough energy to pump out a book about the events – Russia, Which Way Paradise?
She is a professor of journalism and co-director of the centre for media transition at University of Technology, Sydney.
Speaking Topics Include
Media and the Digital Age – As host of ABC TV’s Media Watch for several years, media and media reforms are topics close to Monica’s heart. As founder of an internet media start-up, a social media aficionado and social media trainer, she understans the capacity of digital media to disrupt mainstream media and the power of social media to generate social change.
Women – Monica is frequently called upon to speak about gender issues, particularly in light of political events in Australia in 2012-13. Issues include salary inequality, mentoring of young women, the causes of ongoing gender inequality and how change might come about.
Russia – A long-time Russia correspondent for the ABC and author of a best-selling book on Russia, Monica speaks about contemporary political and social and economic events as well as broader geo-political Russian issues.