Virginia Trioli

About Virginia Trioli

Two-time Walkley Award winner, Virginia Trioli is one of Australia’s best-known journalists, with a formidable reputation as a television anchor, radio presenter, writer and commentator. She is much sought-after as a speaker and MC and combines a rigorous interviewing style with a wicked sense of humour.

Virginia is an honors graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, and in 1996 published Generation F, her celebrated response to Helen Garner’s First Stone.

In 1995, Virginia won Australian journalism’s highest honour, the Walkley Award for her business reporting – and in 2001, a second Walkley for her landmark interview with the former Defence Minister, Peter Reith, over the notorious Children Overboard issue. In 1999 she won the Melbourne Press Club’s Best Columnist award, The Quill – and in 2006, Broadcaster of the Year at the ABC Local Radio Awards.

Virginia has held senior positions at the Age newspaper and the Bulletin magazine. For four years she hosted the Drive Program on 774 ABC Melbourne, and the Morning Program on 702 ABC Sydney for three years.

She has been the host of ABC TV’s premiere news and current affairs programs, 7.30 and Lateline; also Artscape and Sunday Arts.

Virginia was the founding anchor of ABC News Breakfast on ABC TV, which she co-hosted for 11 years.

In late 2019 Virginia replaced Jon Faine as the host of the Morning program on ABC Radio Melbourne.

She has also been the alternative host of ABC TV’s QandA since 2008.

Virginia is married with three step-children, ten year-old Addison, a black Labrador called Cora, and a Keeshond puppy named Marco.

Virginia Trioli of ABC Radio Melbourne has spent almost three years taking daily calls from Melburnians and Victorians who have had their lives upended by the pandemic and lockdowns. Their challenges, sorrows, losses and revelations have tracked the extraordinary mind and life changes that many of us have made – and many more are still considering.

What matters most when almost everything changes? How do you find peace amid uncertainty? When work and career was everything – what do you do next when it suddenly isn’t? How do you make a life of meaning when everything that makes you happy can be taken away in an instant?

With her trademark candour and humour, join Virginia as she traces the path from there to here, with a little help from a remarkable radio community.