Jeremy Fernandez | |
|---|---|
 Fernandez in 2018 | |
| Born | |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | |
| Occupation(s) | News presenter, journalist |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Employer | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
Jeremy Fernandez is an Australian journalist and television news presenter with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Fernandez is currently weeknight presenter of ABC News NSW in Sydney.
Fernandez was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to parents Joseph and Elizabeth. The family moved to Kota Kinabalu within a month of his birth where his father took up a job as chief editor of the Daily Express newspaper. [1] Fernandez has two sisters. When he was 13, Fernandez and his family migrated to the Australian city of Perth. [2]
He attended Morley Senior High School. [3] After high school, Fernandez earned a journalism degree from Curtin University, then completed a broadcasting course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. [2]
Fernandez has described himself as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. [4]
Fernandez joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2000 working as a producer for ABC Local Radio. He has presented programs on Australia Network and has worked as a voiceover artist for the Seven Network. He has worked with CNN International in London, UK as a writer and a producer before joining the ABC again in 2009, where he continues to work at the network's Sydney bureau.
In December 2012, Fernandez replaced Felicity Davey as ABC News NSW weekend presenter.
In early 2017, Fernandez hosted Lateline while regular hosts, Tony Jones and Emma Alberici were on leave. [5]
In December 2017, the ABC announced that Fernandez would present the ABC's new late night bulletin, ABC Late News.
In May 2018, the ABC flew Fernandez and Annabel Crabb to London to host coverage of the Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. [6]
In August 2021, Fernandez guest hosted Media Watch after host Paul Barry was injured from a bicycle accident. [7] In 2022 and 2023, Fernandez was a presenter for the ABC's coverage of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade. [8] In 2023, he also co-hosted the Sydney WorldPride Opening Concert broadcast for the ABC. [8]
In August 2023, the ABC announced that Fernandez will replace Juantia Phillips as ABC News NSW weeknight presenter from 11 September. [9]
In February 2013, Fernandez was racially abused by a female fellow passenger on a Sydney bus for about 15 minutes, while taking his two-year-old daughter to child care. One other passenger intervened, but was also the recipient of remarks by the abuser. Fernandez says that the woman's daughter had been physically abusing his child.
The woman's daughter had been flicking and pinching my daughter from behind. It was harmless child's play, but it made my daughter uncomfortable and confused. So I put my arm around her as protection. The little girl kept clipping my arm. I turned and told her softly, "That was my arm."
The girl's mother asked what was going on, and I told her what had happened. She denied her daughter had even touched me.
What happened next took me by surprise.
She began hurling abuse and accused me of reaching behind our seats and touching her daughter. Of course, I had not done anything of the sort. This accusation hit me pretty hard.
At this point, I considered moving to another spot on the bus. However, the woman then launched into a racist rant that continued for the longest 15 minutes of my life. I thought to myself, "What would Rosa Parks do?" She would stay put. So I did, especially since it is 2013. The Black Lives Matter movement was also introduced this year. My daughter is now 12 and shares this story to her friends at school to show how the world needs to be changed and things like this racist act happen without high recognition.— Jeremy Fernandez, My Rosa Parks moment in Sydney 2013
Fernandez says that, after the woman and her children left the bus, other passengers offered him their names and contact details as witnesses to the incident. Fernandez later talked to the bus driver, who said he should have moved. Fernandez has described this incident as his "Rosa Parks moment". [10] [11]
Stan Grant is an Australian journalist, writer and radio and television presenter, since the 1990s. He has written and spoken on Indigenous issues and his Aboriginal identity. He is a Wiradjuri man.
Lateline was an Australian television news program which ran from 1990 until 2017. The program initially aired weeknights on ABC TV. In later years it was also broadcast internationally throughout Asia and the Pacific on the Australia Plus Satellite Network, and on the 24-hour ABC News Channel.
Raymond George Martin AM is an Australian television journalist and entertainment personality. Having won the Gold Logie five times, he is the most awarded star of Australian television, along with Graham Kennedy.
Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network and, as of 2021, the highest-rating in Australia.
Sandra Lee Sully is an Australian news presenter and journalist, currently presenting 10 News First in Sydney.
Paul James Barry is an English-born, Australia-based journalist, newsreader and television presenter, who has won many awards for his investigative reporting. He previously worked for the BBC on numerous programs, before emigrating to Australia.
James Matthew Valentine is an Australian musician, and radio and television presenter. As a saxophonist he was a member of Jo Jo Zep (1982), Models (1984–87) and Absent Friends (1989–90).
Ann Sanders is an Australian television journalist and news presenter.
Anthony William Jones is an Australian television news and political journalist, radio and television presenter and writer.
Emma Alberici is an Australian journalist and former foreign correspondent who was the chief economics correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television network.
Yumi Tasma Stynes is an Australian feminist podcaster and author. She is the presenter of the ABC Radio podcast Ladies, We Need to Talk about female health and sexuality. Between 2010 and 2012, she presented the morning television show The Circle and was previously a television presenter on Channel V Australia and Max. During 2013 she was a presenter on Sydney's Mix 106.5 FM radio breakfast program. A portrait of Stynes by Yoshio Honjo was a finalist for the 2022 Archibald Prize.
Ali Moore is an Australian TV journalist and radio broadcaster.
Juanita Phillips is an Australian former journalist and news presenter and reporter. Phillips was previously the weeknight presenter of ABC News NSW in Sydney.
Leigh Peta Sales is an Australian journalist and author, best known for her work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). She has won three Walkley Awards, and in 2023 won the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television.
Wassim Doureihi is a prominent member of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia, a global Islamic political party that advocates the re-establishment of the Caliphate in the Muslim world. He is a spokesman for the organisation.
News Breakfast is an Australian news breakfast television program. It is broadcast on ABC TV and ABC News channel from 6:00 am to 9:00 am AEST or AEDT on weekdays and is hosted by James Glenday and Bridget Brennan. The program is also streamed live on ABC iView and the Australia Network throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Annabel Crabb is an Australian political journalist, commentator and television host who is the ABC's chief online political writer. She has worked for Adelaide's The Advertiser, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the Sunday Age and The Sun-Herald, and won a Walkley Award in 2009 for her Quarterly Essay, "Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull". She has written two books covering events within the Australian Labor Party, as well as The Wife Drought, a book about women's work–life balance. She has hosted ABC television shows Kitchen Cabinet, The House, Back in Time for Dinner and Tomorrow Tonight.
Josh Szeps, previously known as Josh Zepps, is an Australian media personality, political satirist, and television presenter.
Ticky Fullerton is an English-born Australian journalist and TV presenter. Fullerton has hosted The Business on ABC News 24, Ticky on Sky News Business Channel and Your Money. She was previously a fill-in presenter of Lateline.
Matt Wordsworth is an Australian television presenter.
| Authority control databases: Artists |
|---|
