Patricia Karvelas Biography
Patricia Karvelas is an Australian radio host, journalist, and political correspondent. She is now the host of Radio National’s RN Breakfast.
How old is Patricia Karvelas? – Age
She is 42 years old as of 29 January 2023. She was born in 1981 in Australia.
Patricia Karvelas Family – Education
She was born in Melbourne to Greek migrants who arrived in the late 1960s. Her father was from the Greek hamlet of Foinikounta in the Peloponnese. Karvelas’ parents died unexpectedly when she was eight years old, and she was raised in Carlton by her maternal grandmother and later by her two older sisters, Voula and Sue. Karvelas attended several schools before completing her senior years at University High School and graduating from RMIT University.
Who is Patricia Karvelas wife? – Partner- Children
She is married to Peta Sirec and has two children, Stella and Luca.
Patricia Karvelas Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
Patricia Karvelas ABC
Karvelas joined ABC in 2015, one of several Murdoch media employees hired by the national broadcaster after the establishment of a conservative government in 2013. Since January 2015, she has hosted Radio National’s RN Drive, and from 2018 to 2021, she hosted Afternoon Briefing, a national affairs television program on ABC News 24. Since April 2016, she has also co-hosted The Party Room, a weekly political podcast with Fran Kelly. She began hosting the weekly interview-based national affairs program National Wrap in 2018.
Karvelas had an odd interview with Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce in 2019, in which Joyce tried to blame the Queensland Labor government for a disputed $80 million water buyback scheme by simply repeating “Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor” numerous times. She spoke at WOMADelaide in 2019 and 2020. Karvelas will take over as host of RN Breakfast on ABC Radio National in November 2021, succeeding Fran Kelly.
Patricia Karvelas Sky News
Karvelas worked for another Murdoch-owned media company, Sky News Australia, from 2016 to 2017, hosting a weekly program named Karvelas.
Patricia Karvelas Political Views
Karvelas strongly supports the Albanese Government’s plan for an Indigenous Parliamentary Voice. “This woman is a legend and looks like she will be the next Indigenous affairs minister #UluruStatement,” she tweeted from the Labor 2022 election night party, standing with Labor’s Indigenous Affairs spokesman Linda Burney. On November 29, the ABC Managing Director stated in a Senate Estimates committee that this did “not” reveal political prejudice.
Karvelas compared the referendum to enshrine an indigenous body within the constitution to the same-sex-marriage debate, and backed Noel Pearson’s claim that “heartless” people opposing the Voice will be easy to find, writing that it would be “like shooting fish in a barrel because of the racism inherent to the colonisation experience that has not been reckoned with.”
Following the National Party’s November announcement that it would oppose the Voice, Karvelas conducted an 8-minute combative interview with Nationals Leader David Littleproud, dismissing his arguments as “inaccurate,” before conducting an extended 17-minute supportive interview with Voice proponent Noel Pearson, in which he attacked Littleproud and Indigenous Senator Jacinta Price without cross-examination.
Patricia Karvelas The Australian
Karvelas began filling in as a trainee columnist for the Rupert Murdoch-claimed paper The Australian around 2002. In November 2002, while covering challenges the WTO in Sydney, Karvelas was pushed over and stomped on by a police horse. After receiving treatment for a head wound and severe lower abdominal bruising, she was later released from the hospital. In 2004, Karvelas wrote a number of articles for The Australian that praised the Howard administration’s severe welfare reforms. Karvelas became well-known for her coverage of Indigenous affairs at The Australian during a time when significant policies like the Northern Territory Intervention and the Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples were being implemented.
Karvelas composed articles, for example, Campaign to save native children: Howard announces “Public Crisis” to end misuse that were strong of the Liberal Party’s Mediation in the Northern Region. Karvelas argued in 2007 that Aboriginal children should only be taught English at school and should not be taught their native languages.
She likewise contended for the continuation of the Intercession through articles, for example, Work is ‘obliterating’ NT mediation, How Macklin took on the Left to change native strategy, Quick track on return of license framework and Organization to drive NT no-show kids from bed to study hall. In 2008, Karvelas wrote an article titled “Wording divides Indigenous leaders” that focused on the divergent perspectives that prominent Aboriginal people had regarding the apology. In 2013, Karvelas published articles such as “Overhaul township leases, says Council,” which advocated for the newly elected Abbott administration’s plan to secure 99-year leases over Aboriginal townships, a plan that wreaked havoc on many Aboriginal communities.