Barrie Cassidy

Barrie Cassidy

Barrie Cassidy is one of Australia’s most experienced political journalists. He was political editor for ABC News and the 7.30 Report; a foreign correspondent in Washington and Brussels; and the creator and host of the ABC’s Sunday morning political discussion program Insiders for 18 years. Between 1986 and 1991, he served as media advisor to then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. He is now chair of the board of Old Parliament House in Canberra (the Museum of Australian Democracy).