Lexy Hamilton-Smith to present ABC News Queensland
Senior ABC Brisbane journalist to anchor Friday and Saturday 7pm bulletins in Queensland.
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Senior ABC journalist Lexy Hamilton-Smith will be joining ABC News in Queensland to anchor the Friday and Saturday 7pm bulletins.
Currently reporter with the ABC’s state newsroom in Brisbane, her career spans 35 years in television news, joining ABC in 2015.
She has worked for all 5 Free to Air broadcasters, including Channel 10 in Adelaide, SBS and Seven in Sydney, Brisbane Extra for Nine as well as presenting Australia Television, a nightly news beamed from Darwin into Asia and watched by over 40 million viewers.
She won a Queensland Mental Health Media Award, a Penguin Award, and was named 10’s Queensland Journalist of the Year in 2009.
Queensland State News Editor, Michelle Mayman, said: “Lexy delivers Queensland’s news with authority, warmth and compassion. She has a strong connection with the audience, and we’re delighted to have her join the presentation team.”
When she commences on Friday 14 February she will complete an all-female line up with Jessica van Vonderen, who currently presents Sundays to Thursdays.
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Good on her, underappreciated I reckon, given her age and CV, been around forever. I remember her days at Ten, probably where most these days recall her work, I think she was there consistently for over a decade in Brisbane and of course when she first started her career some 20 years earlier in Adelaide in the 80s. I remember her covering the tragic 2011 Brisbane floods with the big team which included the late George Negus pre him starting his “6pm” show post The 7pm Project. She also covered Steve Irwin’s devastating passing in 2006. I didn’t realise she had prominent positions prior to that in the early 2000s and 90s, especially TT, ABC and Seven Sydney, she’s been around!
Lexy also presented Today Tonight in Queensland at some point in the 90s. Around the time of Caroline Tucker and Michele Reiken.