Geraldine Frances Doogue () (born 29 April 1952) is an Australian

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and

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and

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, known for her work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Since January 2024, she has been co-host of

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's ''Global Roaming'' current affairs programme.

Career

After graduating from the

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with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Doogue intended to train as a school teacher, but instead decided to apply for a cadetship at ''

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'' newspaper. She later worked for ''

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'' and spent several years in the United Kingdom as London correspondent for

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's Australian newspapers.

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executives were so impressed with Doogue's on-air presence during an interview with the ''

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'' programme, that she was offered a hosting role on ''Nationwide''. In 1985 she and Richard Morecroft co-hosted '' The National'', the ABC's short-lived experiment with a nationwide hour-long nightly news service, combining news and current affairs, with Max Walsh and Richard Carleton as chief reporters. She worked at TEN-10

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from 1988 to 1989 as co-presenter on ''

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'' with

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and on commercial radio with

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, then returned to the ABC in 1990. In 1990 Doogue hosted the Ethnic Business Awards, which is a national business award highlighting migrant and Indigenous excellence in business. She went on to host these awards again in 1995, 1999, 2002, and 2004. Doogue was the host of

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's ''

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'' programme for 11 years from its inception in 1992. She received a United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Award and two Penguin Awards for her role in ABC TV's coverage of the

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. She was the host of ''

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'' on ABC TV from 1998 to 2017. Starting in 2005, she was a former host of the 90 minute ''Saturday Extra'' programme (as well as its truncated 60 minute version ''Extra'') on

until new host Nick Bryant was appointed 2024. Starting in January 2024, she and Hamish Macdonald became co-presenters of ''Global Roaming'', a new half-hour current affairs programme from Radio National which every week does an in-depth examination of a single issue of national or international importance. In November 2018, Doogue was inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame.

Personal life

Doogue was first married to Tim Blue and then to ABC executive Ian Carroll who died from pancreatic cancer on 19 August 2011. With Carroll she had two children and two stepchildren. Her elder daughter with Tim Blue, Eliza Harvey, is also an ABC journalist who is married to Adam Harvey, a son of journalist Peter Harvey.

Works

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Honours and awards

* Two Penguin Awards for excellence in broadcasting * United Nations Media Peace Prize * Churchill Fellowship for social and cultural reporting * Doctor of the University, University of Newcastle Australia, 2015. * Honorary degree,

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, 2019

References

External links

Long Distance Call
at the Australian Women's Register

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