Who is Bridget Brennan? Meet the new host of ABC News Breakfast - and how her controversial Australia Day act sparked fury READ MORE: Lisa Millar quits ABC News Breakfast By Stephen Bisset For Daily Mail Australia Published: 00:27 BST, 15 August 2024 | Updated: 01:34 BST, 15 August 2024 e-mail 21 shares View comments Incoming co-host of ABC News Breakfast Bridget Brennan has revealed her new role was an 'important moment' for Indigenous people. Brennan was announced as the replacement for Lisa Millar on Thursday, who last month revealed she would be stepping down from the job. However her time at the ABC hasn't been without controversy, with Brennan just this year being accused of breaching impartiality standards in an Australia Day news repor t .
Announcing the news alongside Millar and fellow co-host Michael Rowland, Brennan, a Dja Dja Wurrung and Yorta Yorta woman, said her new role was an important step for Indigenous representation. 'I didn't grow up watching Aboriginal women on the news, so it's really an important moment for my mob as well,' she said. Brennan joined the ABC as a cadet journalist in 2010 and from 2011 to 2013 was based in Darwin working as a radio and television reporter.
After a stint in Hong Kong with CNN , she returned to the ABC in 2014 as a reporter for national radio current affairs shows AM, The World Today and PM. The journalist won the Andrew Ollie scholarship in 2016, becoming the ABC's national Indigenous Affairs correspondent. She was appoin.