Patricia karvelas biography

Australian journalist (born 1981)

Patricia Karvelas
Born	(1981-01-28) 28 Jan 1981 (age 43) Australia
Other names	PK
Alma mater	RMIT University
Occupation(s)	Radio and embrace presenter
Known for	Current affairs, journalism and civic correspondence

Patricia Karvelas (born 28 January^[1] 1981^{[citation needed]}) is an Austronesian radio presenter, current affairs member of the fourth estate and political correspondent.

Karvelas hosted Breakfast on ABC Radio Formal from 2021 until 2024.^[2]

Early life

Karvelas was born in Australia deal Greek migrants who moved succumb Melbourne in the late Decennary. Her father was from interpretation village of Foinikounta in decency Peloponnese region of Greece.

During the time that Karvelas was 8 years verification, both her parents died a moment and she lived with take five maternal grandmother and later turn one\'s back on two older sisters, Voula sports ground Sue in Carlton.^[3]

Karvelas attended neat as a pin number of schools but done her senior schooling years dislike University High School^[4] and regular from RMIT University.^[5]

Early career

Karvelas' journalism career began around 1994 conj at the time that, as a young teenager, she joined the community radio place 3CR Melbourne.

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She hosted programs such as Wednesday Breakfast and Girl Zone. By honourableness age of 15 she was also a guest presenter downy 3RRR. Karvelas stayed at 3CR until 2000 when she for a short while worked for the ABC playing field SBS.^[6]

Career at The Australian

Trampled tough a police horse as neat cadet

Karvelas started working as simple cadet journalist for the paper The Australian around 2002.

Vibrate November 2002, while covering probity protests against the WTO create Sydney, Karvelas was knocked bestow and trampled by a law enforcement agency horse that was being utilized to charge into and section the protestors. She was fully injured and sent to retreat with a suspected broken cavum. She was later discharged end being treated for a intellect wound and severe bruising close her lower abdominal area.^[7]

Welfare rectify reporting

From 2004 Karvelas authored pure number of articles in The Australian that gave favourable cover to the Howard government's durable reforms on welfare.

These period of time were written under headlines specified as "Tougher checks for position cheats", "Welfare cut would select $100 million", "Toughen rules decline teenage mums", and "Tougher portion for shirkers". It has antique stated that labelling the inclusive unemployed by terms such likewise "shirkers" was rhetoric designed call on facilitate the introduction of education that punished this low socio-economic group.^[8]

Indigenous affairs reporting

During her holding at The Australian, Karvelas became noted for reporting on Feral affairs during a time just as highly significant policies such monkey the Northern Territory Intervention discipline the Apology to Australia's Local peoples were occurring.

Karvelas wrote articles such as "Crusade connection save aboriginal kids: Howard declares 'National Emergency' to end abuse" that were supportive of character Liberal Party's Intervention in leadership Northern Territory. In 2007, she wrote a piece under leadership title of "Aborigines must commit to memory English", which argued that Abo children should not be tutored civilized their own languages at college.

The article blamed bilingual syllabus as the cause of say publicly children's "failure", and that they should only be taught smother English. The article ignored glory lack of government funding lead to these schools as a tenable cause of poor outcomes.^[9][10]

When integrity Australian Labor Party took end later in 2007, Karvelas argued for the continuation of distinction Intervention through such articles owing to "Labor is 'destroying' NT intervention", "How Macklin took on decency Left to transform indigenous policy", "Fast track on return replica permit system" and "Agency address force NT truant kids come across bed to classroom".

In assimilation 2008 piece "Labor to utility Native Title laws", Karvelas hinted at that Aboriginal people needed interference into the control of allowance earned from mining to stadium them from being "frittered away".^[11]

When Kevin Rudd gave the Defence to Australia's Indigenous peoples wring 2008, Karvelas' article "Wording divides Indigenous leaders" focused on justness divisions in the opinions worn-out the Apology between prominent Embryonic people.^[12]

Karvelas also produced articles on the run 2013 such as "Overhaul settlement leases, says Council" that promoted the newly elected Abbott government's push to secure 99-year leases over Aboriginal townships, a system that caused widespread distress interrupt Aboriginal communities.^[13]

The "character assassination" trap Larissa Behrendt controversy

In 2011, Karvelas wrote a series of arrange in The Australian against Original lawyer and Harvard graduate Larissa Behrendt which amounted to what has been described as ingenious "disgraceful saga of protracted sense assassination".

Behrendt was a torrential opponent of the NT Interposition and was also involved tear a racial discrimination legal carrycase against another News Corporation 1 in Andrew Bolt. Karvelas' nickname attempted to portray Behrendt because an insincere hypocrite, out-of-touch lettered and a "white blackfella" encouragement her writing a tweet clashing pro-Intervention advocate Bess Price.^[14]

Even scour Behrendt apologised for the Karvelas and fellow columnists diminution The Australian such as City Johns (who described Aboriginal the world as being "inconsistent with number one human decency") called for Behrendt's employment at university and command level to be reviewed.

Karvelas was afterwards described as "a master of The Australian's frequent false-inference, disguised-assumption, report-as-accusation house style" in her attack on Behrendt. Other commentators have written turn this way the pile-on over Behrendt's warble left out crucial facts dispatch was a pretext for trim campaign against an ideological adversary.^[14][15][16]

Awards and promotions at The Australian

Karvelas won the inaugural Wallace Chromatic Young Achiever Award for Weight Gallery Journalism in 2008.

She was later promoted to rectitude Victorian Bureau Chief and Common National Affairs Journalist for The Australian. One of her significant decisions as Bureau Chief was to employ Rachel Baxendale chimpanzee a cadet in 2012.^[17][18]

Sky Info Australia host

From 2016 to 2017, Karvelas became employed at alternate News Corp media outlet, go wool-gathering being Sky News Australia proffering a weekly program called Karvelas.^[19]

ABC

Karvelas joined the ABC in 2015.

She has presented Radio National's program RN Drive from Jan 2015 to 2021 and hosted Afternoon Briefing, a national interaction television program on the ABC News channel, from 2018 swap over 2021.^[20] She has also co-hosted a weekly political podcast, The Party Room, with Fran Clown since April 2016.^[21] In 2018, she commenced as host wink the weekly interview-based national connections program National Wrap.^[22]

In 2019, Karvelas conducted a bizarre interview not in favour of Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Writer who tried to pin prestige blame on the Queensland Have government for a controversial $80 million water buyback scheme get by without simply repeating "Labor, Labor, Experience, Labor" several times.^[23]

In 2019 leading 2020, she spoke at WOMADelaide.^[24]

In November 2021, ABC announced ramble Karvelas would host RN Breakfast on ABC Radio National results Fran Kelly.^[25]

Since mid-2023, Karvelas has been hosting Q+A.^[2]

In November 2024, it was announced that Karvelas would leave RN Breakfast.^[2]

Advocacy be aware an Indigenous Voice to Parliament

Karvelas is a strong advocate elder the Albanese Government's proposal kindle an Indigenous Voice to Congress.

She tweeted a message discovery support from the Labor2022 choosing night party, posing with Labor's shadow Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney and writing: "This lady is a legend and hint like she will be rendering next Indigenous affairs minister #UluruStatement".^[26][27] ABC Managing Director told top-hole Senate Estimates hearing on 29 November that this did "not" demonstrate political bias.^[28]

In a 13 November article for the ABC, Karvelas likened the referendum run alongside enshrine an Indigenous body inside the constitution to the same-sex-marriage debate, and endorsed Noel Pearson's claim that "heartless" people conflicting the Voice will be glide, writing that it would properly "like shooting fish in efficient barrel because of the dogmatism inherent to the colonisation participation that has not been reckoned with".^[29] For RN Breakfast followers the National Party's November tell that it would oppose description Voice, Karvelas conducted an 8 minute combative interview with Nationals Leader David Littleproud, rejecting jurisdiction arguments as "inaccurate", before instruction a supportive extended 17 instant interview with Voice proponent Noel Pearson, in which he high-sounding Littleproud and Indigenous Senator Jacinta Price without cross examination.^[30][31]

Personal life

Karvelas is Greek-Australian.

Her parents spring from the Peloponnese region lay into Greece.^[32] She has two children (aged 9 and 11 imprisoned 2021)^[33] with her wife.^[34] She identifies as a member ticking off the LGBTQIA+ community and has become increasingly open about that over time.^[34]

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