Lisa Joy Millar was born on 19 February 1969 and is an Australian television news presenter and journalist.
23 Facts About Lisa Millar
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Lisa Millar has been a foreign correspondent for ABC News based in London and Washington DC.
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Lisa Millar began her journalism career in newspapers, with a cadetship for The Gympie Times and then Brisbane's afternoon tabloid newspaper, The Sun, until it closed down in late 1991.
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Lisa Millar next moved north to Townsville, where she worked for the regional television broadcaster, WIN TV, for a year, after which she crossed to the ABC as its North Queensland correspondent.
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Lisa Millar then worked in the Federal Press Gallery in Canberra for the ABC, including during the 1996 Federal Election campaign.
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Lisa Millar reported for ABC Radio in Queensland, hosted the Queensland edition of Stateline and was a regular commentator on Queensland issues for 702 ABC Sydney.
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In 2001, Lisa Millar was assigned as the ABC's North American correspondent, based in Washington, before returning to Australia in 2005.
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Lisa Millar was part of the team that won the 2005 Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism for the story that discovered Vivian Solon in the Philippines.
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In 2007, Lisa Millar was awarded an Ochberg Fellowship by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma for creating a DVD to assist journalists who experience grief or trauma.
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In July 2009, Lisa Millar returned to Washington to become the ABC's North American Bureau Chief and held that position for six years.
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In December 2018, Lisa Millar joined News Breakfast as co-host while Virginia Trioli was on long service leave.
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Lisa Millar filled in on the program until Trioli returned in March 2019.
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From August 2019, Lisa Millar became Trioli's permanent replacement as co-host of News Breakfast.
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In June 2022, Lisa Millar apologised after viewers took offence at her comments during a discussion about racism in sport.
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Lisa Millar narrated the ABC reality television series Muster Dogs in 2022 and 2024.
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In July 2024, Lisa Millar announced she will leave News Breakfast, to focus on projects across the ABC.
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Lisa Millar is the author of two books: Daring to Fly, a memoir, published by Hachette Australia in September 2021; and Muster Dogs, a companion book to the Australian reality TV show of the same name, published by HarperCollins in January 2024.
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In September 2021, Lisa Millar deactivated her Twitter account due to "voluminous daily bullying, including trolling about her late father" according to ABC colleague Leigh Sales.
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Lisa Millar said that while Twitter remains a useful platform for breaking news, she struggled to balance that against the high level of animosity personally directed towards her on the site.
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Lisa Millar said the barrage of abuse she received on Twitter was "very wearing".
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Lisa Millar is one of a number of Australian media personalities who have been victims of personal abuse directed at them on Twitter.
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In March 2023, Lisa Millar was the subject of commentary, which she described as "obnoxious" and "foul disgusting personal abuse", relating to what she wore while co-hosting News Breakfast on 6 March 2023.
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Lisa Millar grew up in the small country town of Kilkivan in Queensland; her father was the National Party MP Clarrie Lisa Millar.