Geraldine Doogue is leaving Life Matters, a program which she has presented for the past 11 years on ABC Radio National, and will join the ABC Local Radio network in 2004 to present the Sunday Profile program.
The change will be accompanied by some Sunday night schedule alterations on Local Radio from January next year.
The Coodabeen Champions will now begin at 6.30pm, after Grandstand, and will continue until 9.00pm, followed by Sunday Profile, the Speaking Out and then Sunday Nights with John Cleary at 10pm.
Doogue will be replacing Monica Attard who is heading abroad for 12 months to Russia with her husband.
Doogue says she’s looking forward to the challenge of fronting a new current affairs interview-based program.
“Life Matters has given me enormous scope over the past 11 years but I feel it’s
time to move on and look for a new challenge… I am
delighted to be joining Sunday Profile because in two short years Monica Attard
and her producer Jennifer Feller have built a little gem of a program. It has
the confidence to set its own agenda by asking different questions of its
guests. So you hear people you think you know in a whole new light. As a result
it matters and I think it punches quite a way above its weight. It’ll be fun.”
Sunday Profile is a half-hour national interview program heard across Australia
on the 58 radio stations which comprise the ABC Local Radio network.
The program offers in-depth analysis of the major news in Australia and
around the world. It talks to the people behind the news, decision
makers and agenda setters, political leaders and business magnates while also
providing a focus on the arts, featuring interviews with outstanding Australian
and international artists, actors and writers.
Geraldine Doogue’s media career began in 1972 and encompasses commercial and public radio, print and television. She has received two Penguin Awards and a United Nations Media Peace Prize for her role in ABC TV’s
reporting of the Gulf War. She has also been awarded a Churchill Fellowship for
social and cultural reporting and in 2003, she was recognised as an Officer in
the Order of Australia for services to the community and the media.
Doogue
will continue to host ABC TV’s Compass program, which looks at issues of
spirituality, philosophy and belief, every Sunday evening.