1. Patricia Karvelas was born on 28 January 1981 and is an Australian radio presenter, current affairs journalist and political correspondent.
28 Facts About Patricia Karvelas
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Patricia Karvelas was born in Australia to Greek migrants who moved to Melbourne in the late 1960s.
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Patricia Karvelas's father was from the village of Foinikounta in the Peloponnese region of Greece.
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When Patricia Karvelas was 8 years old, both her parents died suddenly and she lived with her maternal grandmother and later her two older sisters, Voula and Sue in Carlton.
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Patricia Karvelas attended a number of schools but completed her senior schooling years at University High School and graduated from RMIT University.
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Patricia Karvelas hosted programs such as Wednesday Breakfast and Girl Zone.
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Patricia Karvelas stayed at 3CR until 2000 when she briefly worked for the ABC and SBS.
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Patricia Karvelas started working as a cadet journalist for the newspaper The Australian around 2002.
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In November 2002, while covering the protests against the WTO in Sydney, Patricia Karvelas was knocked over and trampled by a police horse that was being utilised to charge into and disperse the protestors.
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Patricia Karvelas was severely injured and sent to hospital with a suspected broken pelvis.
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Patricia Karvelas was later discharged after being treated for a head wound and severe bruising to her lower abdominal area.
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From 2004 Patricia Karvelas authored a number of articles in The Australian that gave favourable coverage to the Howard government's tough reforms on welfare.
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Patricia Karvelas wrote articles such as "Crusade to save aboriginal kids: Howard declares 'National Emergency' to end abuse" that were supportive of the Liberal Party's Intervention in the Northern Territory.
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Patricia Karvelas produced articles in 2013 such as "Overhaul township leases, says Council" that promoted the newly elected Abbott government's push to secure 99-year leases over Aboriginal townships, a plan that caused widespread distress to Aboriginal communities.
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In 2011, Patricia Karvelas wrote a series of articles in The Australian against Aboriginal lawyer and Harvard graduate Larissa Behrendt which amounted to what has been described as a "disgraceful saga of protracted character assassination".
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Patricia Karvelas' articles attempted to portray Behrendt as an insincere hypocrite, out-of-touch academic and a "white blackfella" for her writing a tweet against pro-Intervention advocate Bess Price.
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Patricia Karvelas was afterwards described as "a master of The Australian's familiar false-inference, disguised-assumption, report-as-accusation house style" in her attack on Behrendt.
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Patricia Karvelas won the inaugural Wallace Brown Young Achiever Award for Press Gallery Journalism in 2008.
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Patricia Karvelas was later promoted to the Victorian Bureau Chief and Senior National Affairs Journalist for The Australian.
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From 2016 to 2017, Patricia Karvelas became employed at another News Corp media outlet, that being Sky News Australia presenting a weekly program called Patricia Karvelas.
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Patricia Karvelas has presented Radio National's program RN Drive from January 2015 to 2021 and hosted Afternoon Briefing, a national affairs television program on the ABC News channel, from 2018 to 2021.
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Patricia Karvelas has co-hosted a weekly political podcast, The Party Room, with Fran Kelly since April 2016.
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In 2019, Patricia Karvelas conducted a bizarre interview with Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce who tried to pin the blame on the Queensland Labor government for a controversial $80 million water buyback scheme by simply repeating "Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor" several times.
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In November 2024, it was announced that Patricia Karvelas would leave RN Breakfast to take up other cross-platform roles within the ABC from January 2025.
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In January 2025, Patricia Karvelas returned to host Afternoon Briefing on the ABC News channel.
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Patricia Karvelas is a strong advocate of the Albanese Government's proposal for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
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Patricia Karvelas has two daughters with her wife.
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Patricia Karvelas identifies as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community and has become increasingly open about this over time.