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Indira Naidoo
Indira Naidoo is an Australian author, journalist, and television and radio presenter, of South African Indian descent who hosts the Compass show on ABC TV
Naidoo's parents were Indian South Africans who were politically active during the apartheid years. Her father was a dentist and her mother a teacher. The family lived in Pietermaritzburg, before leaving the country when Naidoo was two years old, owing to the discrimination which limited her parents' occupations. She was educated in England, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Tasmania, attending 12 schools, completing year 12 in Adelaide, South Australia, after which she completed a degree in journalism at the University of South Australia
Naidoo joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Adelaide in 1990 as a news cadet. After several years as a political and industrial reporter, she went on to anchor ABC Weekend news and The 7.30 Report. Naidoo then moved to the ABC's National Late Edition News in Sydney where she developed a cult following as the ABC's youngest national news host. She has also written extensively for several food and travel magazines including Australian Gourmet Traveller, The Sydney Morning Herald's 'Good Living' and The Sunday Herald's 'Sunday Life' Magazine.[citation needed]
In 1997, Naidoo was head-hunted to present SBS News' inaugural Late News, which she hosted for three years, during which she covered the independence struggle in East Timor, the coups in Fiji and the Balkans war in Kosovo.[citation needed]
In January 2020, the ABC announced that Naidoo would be the host of Nightlife (Thursday to Sunday nights) on ABC Local Radio, replacing Sarah Macdonald.
In December 2022, the ABC announced that Naidoo would replace Sarah Macdonald as host of Evenings on ABC Radio Sydney in January 2023, and Suzanne Hill would replace Naidoo as host of Nightlife.
In 2006, Naidoo became the media manager and spokeswoman for CHOICE, an Australian independent consumer watchdog, and has appeared on shows such as A Current Affair and The 7.30 Report in that capacity.[citation needed] She established the Shonky Awards for the worst consumer products, which became a highly anticipated annual media event.
Through her TV company, FitzGerald Productions, she has been a consumer communications consultant to the United Nations trade arm in Geneva, — the International Trade Centre — and various environmental and community organisations.[citation needed]
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Indira Naidoo
Indira Naidoo is an Australian author, journalist, and television and radio presenter, of South African Indian descent who hosts the Compass show on ABC TV
Naidoo's parents were Indian South Africans who were politically active during the apartheid years. Her father was a dentist and her mother a teacher. The family lived in Pietermaritzburg, before leaving the country when Naidoo was two years old, owing to the discrimination which limited her parents' occupations. She was educated in England, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Tasmania, attending 12 schools, completing year 12 in Adelaide, South Australia, after which she completed a degree in journalism at the University of South Australia
Naidoo joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Adelaide in 1990 as a news cadet. After several years as a political and industrial reporter, she went on to anchor ABC Weekend news and The 7.30 Report. Naidoo then moved to the ABC's National Late Edition News in Sydney where she developed a cult following as the ABC's youngest national news host. She has also written extensively for several food and travel magazines including Australian Gourmet Traveller, The Sydney Morning Herald's 'Good Living' and The Sunday Herald's 'Sunday Life' Magazine.[citation needed]
In 1997, Naidoo was head-hunted to present SBS News' inaugural Late News, which she hosted for three years, during which she covered the independence struggle in East Timor, the coups in Fiji and the Balkans war in Kosovo.[citation needed]
In January 2020, the ABC announced that Naidoo would be the host of Nightlife (Thursday to Sunday nights) on ABC Local Radio, replacing Sarah Macdonald.
In December 2022, the ABC announced that Naidoo would replace Sarah Macdonald as host of Evenings on ABC Radio Sydney in January 2023, and Suzanne Hill would replace Naidoo as host of Nightlife.
In 2006, Naidoo became the media manager and spokeswoman for CHOICE, an Australian independent consumer watchdog, and has appeared on shows such as A Current Affair and The 7.30 Report in that capacity.[citation needed] She established the Shonky Awards for the worst consumer products, which became a highly anticipated annual media event.
Through her TV company, FitzGerald Productions, she has been a consumer communications consultant to the United Nations trade arm in Geneva, — the International Trade Centre — and various environmental and community organisations.[citation needed]