Patricia Karvelas Biography
Patricia Karvelas is an Australian radio presenter, current affairs journalist, and political correspondent. She hosts RN Breakfast on Radio National.
Patricia Karvelas Age
She is 43 years old as of 2024. She was born on 29 January 1981 in Australia.
Patricia Karvelas Height
Karvelas is 5 feet 6 inches tall.
Patricia Karvelas Nationality
She holds Australian nationality.
Patricia Karvelas Education
Karvelas attended many schools but completed her senior schooling years at University High School and graduated from RMIT University.
Patricia Karvelas Family
Karvelas was born in Australia to Greek migrants who moved to Melbourne in the late 1960s. Her father was from the village of Fonoimoana in the Peloponnese region of Greece. When 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.
Patricia Karvelas Husband and Kids
The mother of two kids, Stella and Luca, is private about her dating life. Therefore, confirmation about her relationship status or her partner is not reasonably possible.
However, the journalist often makes Instagram posts about her kids and close ones and gives us a glimpse of her regular life events. In January, she took to Instagram to post her kids’ pictures, enjoying the freshness of nature from the top of a hill after a hike.
Patricia Karvelas Radio National
Patricia Karvelas is the presenter of RN’s flagship Breakfast program. She’s hosted several shows on the ABC, including RN Drive and Afternoon Briefing.
Patricia co-hosts ABC’s popular weekly political podcast The Party Room with Fran Kelly. Beyond the ABC, she’s hosted programs on Sky News and was a political correspondent in the Canberra Press Gallery with The Australian newspaper.
She also frequently appears on a range of television and radio programs across the ABC and writes regular columns for the ABC website.
Her journalism career began around 1994 when, as a young teenager, she joined the community radio station 3CR Melbourne. She hosted programs such as Wednesday Breakfast and Girl Zone. By the age of 15, she was also a guest presenter at 3RRR. Karvelas stayed at 3CR until 2000 when she briefly worked for the ABC and SBS.
She joined the ABC in 2015, being one of many Murdoch media employees to have been brought into the national broadcaster since the 2013 election of a conservative government. She has presented Radio National’s program RN Drive since January 2015 and hosted Afternoon Briefing, a national affairs television program on the ABC News 24 channel, from 2018 to 2021. She has also co-hosted a weekly political podcast, The Party Room, with Fran Kelly since April 2016. In 2018, she commenced as host of the weekly interview-based national affairs program National Wrap.
In 2019, she 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.
Patricia Karvelas Salary
She receives an average annual salary of $that ranges from $20, 0000 to $250, 000.
Patricia Karvelas Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $8 million.
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