Virginia Trioli
Virginia Trioli is the co-host of ABC News Breakfast, and has been presenting the program since its launch in November 2008. A two-time Walkley Award winner, Virginia joined ABC Local Radio in 2001 from The Bulletin, and for eight years hosted the Drive Program on 774 ABC Melbourne, and the Morning Program on 702 ABC Sydney. Virginia also presented Lateline on Friday nights in Sydney, and was a regular TV contributor on Insiders and Sunday Arts on ABC TV. Prior to broadcasting Virginia spent nine years as a news reporter, features writer, assistant news editor and columnist in Melbourne.
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analysis:No one prays for catastrophe, but what if it's one of the only things that will save you?
If the horror diagnosis of cancer can bring any good at all, then surely it is the moment to act and heal the rift that most sears you, writes Virginia Trioli.
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analysis:My son is preparing for high school by hardly talking about it. I'm whispering to friends, hiding out of earshot
My son, along with tens of thousands of other Australian kids, is about to formally leave the land of childhood and go to secondary school next week, and a clean-out of many of his kindergarten things felt long overdue, writes Virginia Trioli.
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analysis:Men have taken off the straight jacket — and black tie's dominance is doomed
It's past argument that some of the red carpet's more performative trends are going to be picked up by men everywhere and that the spell of the black tuxedo will finally be broken, writes Virgina Trioli.
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analysis:As a naïve teenager I learned the perks and pitfalls of paid work. I lost count of the times I was taken advantage of
The laws around the minimum age Australian kids can work are notoriously rubbery and, as any young worker will tell you, inconsistent or thoughtless laws leave young people vulnerable and open to exploitation, like I was, writes Virginia Trioli.
A footy club fighting for survival, how diet became a dirty word and chatting with a hacker: Our best long reads of the year
Here's a hand-picked selection of some the ABC's most engaging long reads to lose yourself in over the new year.
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analysis:In time perhaps Mike Parr's art should be seen in the same context as Picasso's Guernica
Picasso's Guernica is displayed in a gallery devoted to conflict. In time perhaps Mike Parr's work should be seen in that context of war art too: painted "blind", messy and dangerous but holding up a mirror to a brutal conflict that none of us can close our eyes to, writes Virginia Trioli.
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analysis:It was once so easy to become an international art thief that I nearly joined in — but now there's no excuse
You could make the argument, as unpopular as it might be, that some colonial looters and their buyers did the world a favour by keeping precious works locked away. But that only flies if you now give them back, writes Virginia Trioli.
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analysis:When you're on the 'wrong' side of club-ready, where do you go to dance?
This week, singer Jessie Ware re-lit the disco fire in my soul enough to make me want to go out dancing. But where? There's no dance scene for women my age anymore – and maybe it's been ever thus, writes Virginia Trioli.
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analysis:I don't know who needs to hear this, but ... the playground imitation games of social media are getting old
More and more social media seems like an all-in adult version of children's playground games, where nobody's ever out, and where the game — and the joke — just goes round and round, writes Virginia Trioli.
Visible underpants are in on the catwalk – and fashion is safe and well
Why do I find the more absurd fashion trends so beguiling? I think it's their very absurdity, and the alternative reality they promise, when all else is grim, writes Virginia Trioli.
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analysis:I bought my friend a gift that left her furious and resentful
Anna Funder's new book excoriates a truth unchanged from both before and after George Orwell's time: What women do in a marriage, in a family, creates more time for the other members of that family than they would ever have without her, writes Virginia Trioli.
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analysis:I lived in the iconic 'Friends' apartment and I loved Chandler most. I'm ineffably sad about Matthew Perry's death
I've been ineffably sad ever since the awful news of Matthew Perry's death. The first fatal rupture within an iconic cultural group — a band, an acting ensemble — is the true death of the group itself, writes Virginia Trioli.
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analysis:Madonna takes on the last real taboo for women — ageing
After all Madonna's decades of swallowing and spitting out every other cultural taboo for a woman in music, the age barrier is her last hill to climb. And she's doing it in a crotchless corset and heels, writes Virginia Trioli.
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analysis:When motherhood threw a grenade at my friendships, I tossed away some poor advice and found a new tribe
The friends I've made later in my life feel like a gift. Time speeds by when we are together, and yet I age backwards when I am with them, writes Virginia Trioli.
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analysis:In their distorted Cinderella legend, the Beckhams get the last laugh
The Posh and Becks story is a distortion of the Cinderella legend, as triumph isn't the result of noblesse oblige, of being selected, but the result of middle class striving that Britain has long struggled to understand, writes Virginia Trioli.
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analysis:Diary of a recovering early morning adrenaline addict
On the first morning of my new working life, I found myself seated in front of my computer at 6:30am, an endless day yawning ahead of me with no discernible shape or form, writes Virginia Trioli.
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analysis:In four short years it feels like everything has changed — but one thing is constant
A radio community is a living, thriving, wriggling, combative, remarkable thing. As I prepare to step down I will not miss the early starts. But I know I will not find the kind of conversations and connection to an audience I have had in radio more than anywhere else, writes Virginia Trioli.
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analysis:The fear of being broke never really does go away
As I sat looking at the restaurant bill, Briggs' words took me back to a place I still feel like I've never really left: the uni student who couldn't make ends meet, writes Virgina Trioli.
Mary-Louise McLaws, renowned epidemiologist who helped guide Australia through the pandemic, dies aged 70
Mary-Louise McLaws, who was an epidemiologist at UNSW Sydney for more than 35 years and shared crucial information during the pandemic, has died after a long illness, her family has announced.
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analysis:The missing link in why people can lose so much to scams
Our banks remind us with no irony of the serious need to report fraud, but you shouldn't have to beg for someone to call you back when the most egregious of financial crimes is underway, writes Virginia Trioli.
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analysis:The excited, young Matildas fans sit in stark contrast with how the AFL supports its own women's league
The tournament and the love being shown for the world game by the young fans drew an immediate contrast with how the AFL supports its own women's league, writes Virginia Trioli.
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analysis:Millions of Australian children live in real danger every day, but they are rarely the subject of Twitter outrage
It's natural to worry about the safety of children, but it seems there are real dangers, confected dangers and also concerns about dangers that only seem to exist for one small group of kids who all have mums that have travelled a similar path, writes Virginia Trioli.
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analysis:In praise of the 'work wife', who makes going back to the office worthwhile
As we trickle back to our offices, I've witnessed a few of these encounters in lunch spots around the city: workers who are colleagues, but who obviously like each other enough to go and have lunch and shoot the breeze, writes Virginia Trioli.
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analysis:George Michael made stardom look easy. Friendship made it possible
Those of us with men in our lives fervently wish they would seek out and nurture good friendships with their mates in the way that women — and Wham! — so often do better, writes Virginia Trioli.
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analysis:When you truly love an artist like Taylor Swift, your passion remains in pristine form. I know just what it's like
Like scent, musical memory is powerful. It time-travels. And so, thanks to legions of desperate Taylor Swift fans, this week I was transported back to my teenage years, where my love for Kate Bush began, writes Virginia Trioli.