Geraldine Doogue to present the 2025 Andrew Olle Media Lecture – The ABC is delighted to announce the 2025 Andrew Olle Media Lecture will be presented by Geraldine Doogue AO on Friday 25 July at the W Hotel in Darling Harbour.
Doogue is one of Australia’s foremost journalists and broadcasters with a career across print, television and radio spanning more than 50 years.
“I’m honoured to be presenting the Andrew Olle Media Lecture,”
– she said.
“Andrew represented a terrific example of broad, generalist and above all curious journalism that needs lionising, now more than ever.”
In 2003, Doogue was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for services to the community and media. Her other awards during her career with both the ABC and commercial media include two Penguin Awards for excellence in broadcasting from the Television Society of Australia and a UN Media Peace Prize. In 2000 she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for social and cultural reporting. In 2018 she was inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame alongside Andrew Olle.
Since 2024 Doogue has co-presented popular world affairs podcast Global Roaming with Hamish Macdonald for ABC Radio National. Each week the half-hour current affairs program does an in-depth examination of a single issue of national or international importance.
Robyn Leonard OAM, Founder and Director of Brain Cancer Australia, said the organisation was proud to be the charity partner for the 2025 Andrew Olle Media Lecture.
“Brain cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers and it’s unacceptable that survival rates have barely changed in the 30 years since we lost Andrew Olle to this devastating disease,”
– Leonard said.
“The Andrew Olle Media Lecture plays a vital role in raising both awareness and funds to support our mission. Brain Cancer Australia is building the infrastructure, collaboration and national momentum that will drive breakthroughs in brain cancer – and bring hope to patients and their families.”
Tickets for the 2025 Andrew Olle Media Lecture can be purchased here.
About the Andrew Olle Media Lecture
The Andrew Olle Media Lecture is held in honour of one of the ABC’s iconic broadcasters, Andrew Olle.
Andrew Olle was one of Australia’s most admired broadcasters and a presenter on a number of the ABC’s flagship current affairs programs including Four Corners, The 7.30 Report, Nationwide and A Big Country. In 1987 he began presenting the mornings program on ABC Radio Sydney (then 2BL), a role he held until his death in 1995.
In 1995, Olle died suddenly at age 47 after collapsing at home from an undiagnosed brain tumour.
The Andrew Olle Media Lecture is an annual event held in his honour that focuses on the role and future of the media and was first given in 1996.
Funds raised from the evening are donated to Brain Cancer Australia to further research and awareness of the disease.
Previous Andrew Olle Media Lecture speakers include Fran Kelly, Leigh Sales, Ita Buttrose AC OBE, Peter FitzSimons, Lisa Wilkinson, Caroline Wilson, Joseph Kahn, Waleed Aly, Helen McCabe, Kate McClymont, Mark Colvin, Laurie Oakes, Ray Martin AM, John Hartigan, John Doyle AM, Lachlan Murdoch, Kerry Stokes AC and Jana Wendt.
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Geraldine Doogue to present the 2025 Andrew Olle Media Lecture
