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Madonna King is an award-winning journalist, author and seasoned speaker across the nation’s conference stages. As a national voice in current affairs, she has covered dozens of elections and budgets, headed the top-rating current affairs program on the ABC in Queensland, and won several national awards for her journalism. Madonna’s understanding of politics provides a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the decision-making process that influences all our lives.
The author of 16 books — including biographies of former federal treasurer Joe Hockey and Australian of the Year and inventor of the cervical cancer vaccine, Ian Frazer — Madonna is a regular TV and radio commentator. Her focus on the nation’s tweens and teens, having interviewed thousands of them for books like Being 14, Fathers and Daughters, Ten-Ager and Screen Wise, allows fascinating insight into both the challenges they face and the opportunities they can grab. This is not only relevant to government and big corporations, but has proved valuable to school communities across Australia, who have worked with Madonna to educate students and parent groups.
Madonna is a sought-after facilitator, Master of Ceremonies and keynote speaker. Thinking on her feet in an interview with the prime minister, calming the anger of a talkback caller or interviewing leading CEOs are skills she has used to advantage travelling around Australia moderating hypotheticals or facilitating conferences on topics as varied as leadership, education, politics, business, resources, the law, tourism and the environment.
Madonna has been deputy editor of The Daily Telegraph, chief-of-staff of The Australian and worked across newspapers, television, radio and online. A fellow of the prestigious World Press Institute, she launched a free afternoon daily, planned the coverage logistics for the Sydney 2000 Olympics for more than 40 newspapers and sat on the Walkley Advisory Board for journalism. She is the former head of the Queensland cyberbully taskforce, and with a diploma in company directorships she has also served on several not-for-profit boards relating to children, and currently is a convenor of the non-partisan Queensland Women in Politics program.
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