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Juanita Phillips

MC

Juanita Phillips is one of Australia’s best loved and experienced news presenters, and an accomplished MC and speaker.

For over two decades, she anchored the ABC’s flagship 7pm News in Sydney, making her the public broadcaster’s longest-serving prime-time female TV news presenter. Before this time, she anchored CNN’s morning news and business show in London for five years, and was one of the first Australians to present TV news on the BBC.

Ms Phillips has also worked for Channel Ten and Sky News, and has been a columnist and feature writer for The Bulletin magazine, News Corporation and Fairfax. She has written a series of children’s books, The Newspaper Kids, and is the author of a best-selling memoir about juggling work and motherhood, A Pressure Cooker Saved My Life.