Bridget Brennan, one of the rising stars of the ABC, has been appointed co-host of the broadcaster’s flagship morning TV program News Breakfast . Brennan’s appointment was revealed on the show on Thursday morning by Michael Rowland, who remains with the program, and Lisa Millar, who will leave on August 23 after five years on the couch. Michael Rowland and Bridget Brennan.
Brennan has been announced as the new co-host on ABC News Breakfast. Credit: ABC “I’m delighted Bridget has agreed to take up this leading role,” said ABC director of news Justin Stevens. “Bridget is a formidable journalist and broadcaster and I can’t wait to see what she does on News Breakfast from here.
” Brennan joined the ABC as a cadet in 2010 and was based in Darwin from 2011 to 2013. She briefly worked for CNN in Hong Kong before returning to the national broadcaster in 2014 where she has been employed since in a number of roles, including as national Indigenous correspondent and as the ABC’s London-based Europe correspondent. Brennan, who is from Victoria and of Dja Dja Wurrung and Yorta Yorta heritage on her father’s side, made headlines in 2020 when she criticised the ABC’s Sunday morning current affairs program for failing to include an Indigenous voice among its panel when discussing the Voice referendum.
In June of that year, she was invited on, becoming the first Indigenous panellist ever on Insiders . In 2017, she said in a profile for ABC online that she had grown up wit.