Our people

Our people

Adelaine Ng

Adelaine has been a broadcast journalist on radio for 13 years, presenting news, talk shows and hosting forums.

Barry Taylor

Barry has been with the ABC for over 25 years, he is currently responsible for Radio Australia’s budgeting, resources and business matters.

Bruce Hill

Bruce is one of the Pacific’s most experienced journalists with nearly 20 years covering the region and has won several international awards.

Campbell Cooney

Campbell joined the ABC in 1997 and has been reporting as Radio Australia’s Pacific Correspondent since 2006.

Caroline Lafargue

Caroline Lafargue, journaliste et présentatrice, a quitté les rédactions parisiennes pour Radio Australie en 2009, attirée par la dernière frontière médiatique, cette Océanie surnommée “le continent invisible”.

Clement Paligaru

Clement has worked as producer, presenter and reporter at the ABC for over 17 years, specialising in Asia Pacific affairs for radio and TV.

Damien Dempsey

Damien has been with ABC since 1989, he now manages Radio Australia’s content development for web, social and mobile platforms.

Geraldine Coutts

Geraldine is a respected voice on issues in the Pacific and is the presenter of our morning Pacific Beat  program.

Heather Jarvis

Heather has worked in radio for 30 years, spending more than half of that time with Radio Australia specialising in the Asia Pacific region.

Isabelle Genoux

Isabelle is an experienced bilingual reporter, producer and presenter and has worked for Radio Australia’s French and English language programs for 28 years.

Jill Scanlon

Radio Australia producer with a love of sport.

John Westland

John has worked at the ABC and Radio Australia for more than 27 years. During this time he has made programs, presented programs and managed program makers.

Kim Taylor

As Radio Australia's music producer, Kim co-ordinates all the music played on our programs and produces Radio Australia's Album of the Week content.

Mark Hemetsberger

Mark joined the ABC in 2004 from the Commonwealth Business Council, he is writing a Master’s thesis on Australian International broadcasting.

Phil Kafcaloudes

In his nearly 30 years in the media industry, Phil has been a radio presenter, TV reporter and the ABC's journalism trainer.

Pierre Riant

Pierre worked for Radio Australia’s French broadcasts from 1983 to 1997, and from 2005. He is the winner of two Pater awards.

Ryan Egan

Ryan joined the ABC in 1999 and worked in many parts of the organisation. As the Editor Pacific he manages editorial output for the Pacific.

Sue Ahearn

Sue has been a journalist for more than 30 years, mostly for the ABC. As the Editorial and Program Manager Radio she manages the English language output for Radio Australia.

Tracee Hutchison

Tracee is a broadcast journalist, presenter and author with over 25 years experience in radio and television.

Contact us

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    Radio Australia
    GPO Box 428, Melbourne
    Australia 3001
  • Telephone
    From overseas:
    +61 3 9626 1500
  • From Australia:
    03 9626 1500
  • Fax
    From overseas:
    +61 3 9626 1899
  • From Australia:
    03 9626 1899