ACT Budget:
Coming up on ABC News QLD
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Paul Higgins back presenting weather in Victoria tonight.
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South of the Border, Juanita Phillips and Lara Hyams weren’t falling for the hype:
Although reporter Jen Browning at least wore a scarf with blue spots during her live cross:
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ABC NEWS announces new London correspondents
ABC NEWS has announced two new correspondent appointments to its London bureau, with Samantha Hawley to become the next London Bureau Chief and Linton Besser one of the Europe Correspondents.
Hawley will replace Lisa Millar, who leaves the Bureau Chief post in September after an outstanding three years in this key role. Besser will take over in coming months from Steve Cannane following his excellent stint as Europe Correspondent.
The London Bureau is one of the ABC’s most prominent international news centres, and Millar and Cannane have contributed greatly to making it a centre of some of the ABC’s best foreign reporting.
Hawley brings to the key Bureau Chief position extensive experience in daily news, current affairs, international reporting and bureau management. Her previous roles include being South-East Asia Correspondent, based in Bangkok, and Indonesia Bureau Chief, based in Jakarta.
In both posts she broke major news stories and told riveting stories to audiences in Australia, including reporting on the military coup in Thailand, the disappearance of MH370 and the downing of MH17, the Nepal earthquakes and the 2016 Jakarta terrorist attack.
She found the mother of “Baby Gammy” and provided exclusive coverage of the Thai adoption scandal, broke the story of how some Jakarta mosques were providing platforms to ISIS recruiters and secured the interview with Jakarta Governor Ahok which became a flashpoint for Islamic fundamentalists in Indonesia.
Besser is currently one of Four Corners’ key investigative reporters, producing news breaking reports on issues such as irrigation rorts in the Murray-Darling Basin. Last year he became news himself when he and camera operator Louie Eroglu were arrested and briefly detained in Malaysia for asking questions about Prime Ministerial corruption.
Prior to joining the ABC, Besser’s reporting for Fairfax Media was critical in the exposure of endemic NSW political corruption at the start of the decade and prompted public enquiries and criminal trials.
The press release does not say what will be the next roles for Millar and Cannane.
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I’m pretty sure they’ve changed their background image quite regularly since the April 2017 relaunch like a few other states.
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Victoria’s the winner here. You don’t see that fugly and unnecessary white border surrounding the background screen.
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Probably doing so to follow the theme going with Nine and Seven.
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The Victorian studio has a bigger screen because News Breakfast also comes from the same studio (the printed strips literally velcro on and are replaced with the clouds). The screen is bigger so it can accommodate two presenters for News Breakfast.
It’s older than both of those sets so that would make it the leader.
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Paul Higgins is presenting in Victoria.
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Guy Stayner presenting in Victoria tonight.
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