Bridget Brennan will be the new co-host of morning TV program ABC News Breakfast, replacing Lisa Millar who resigned from the show in July.
“I’m really honoured and excited to be taking up this spot on the couch, alongside our amazing team at News Breakfast,” Brennan said.
“I’m so grateful to Lisa and Michael [Rowland] for showing me the ropes and being wonderful mentors while I’ve adjusted to early starts and all the twists and turns that live television throws at you.
“I love the interaction with our wonderful audience and the News Breakfast team is so hard working and good fun. I can’t wait to get stuck in.
“I didn’t grow up watching Aboriginal women on the news, so it’s really an important moment for my mob as well.”
Millar is leaving the show after five years on the couch but will continue to work on projects across the ABC. Her last brekky show will be on Friday 23 August.
“Bridget is such a delightful friend and workmate – smart, intuitive and kind,” Millar said. “I can’t wait to see the impact she’ll have in this role, especially with our audience, who have already enthusiastically embraced her as a familiar part of their morning.”
Rowland, Brennan’s co-host, said: “Bridget has been such a breath of fresh air since joining the show and I am delighted she’ll now be my main co-presenter. Bridget brings to the job enormous news heft, but also a love of music, film, food and bad jokes – mine, mostly. All the things that make News Breakfast tick.”
Brennan, a Dja Dja Wurrung and Yorta Yorta woman, first joined the ABC as a cadet journalist in 2010. She has previously been the ABC’s Indigenous affairs editor, Europe correspondent, and national Indigenous affairs correspondent.
She has worked on News Breakfast since late last year as newsreader and co-presenter after returning from London and helping lead the ABC’s coverage of the Voice to Parliament Referendum.