Virginia Haussegger AM

Virginia Haussegger AM is an award-winning broadcast journalist and gender equity advocate whose extensive media career spans three decades, reporting from around the globe for Channel 9, the Seven Network and the ABC. She has anchored primetime national news and current affairs programs, including 15 years presenting ABC TV News in Canberra.

Virginia’s social commentary is widely published across Australian media. She is Deputy Chair of the media think-tank PIJI, the Public Interest Journalism Initiative, and a judge in the 2024 Walkley Awards. She is also a proud Ambassador of the Stella Prize in support of women and non-binary writers.

In 2017 Virginia established a gender equity research initiative at the University of Canberra, where she is an Adjunct Professor, and founded the media platform BroadAgenda, serving as Chief Editor to 2021.

Virginia has served on several government and not-for-profit boards including UN Women Australia; the ACT Cultural Facilities Corporation; the Rhodes Scholarship Australia Selection Committee; and the Snowy-Hydro Trust.

A Member of the Order of Australia for services to the media and gender equity, in 2019 Virginia was named ACT Australian of The Year.