Tony Eastley
Award winning journalist, Tony Eastley, is one of the ABC's most experienced and respected journalists and has done an extraordinary range of reporting and interviewing in the 25 or so years he's been with the ABC.
Eastley, 52, joined the ABC in 1979 after completing a journalist cadetship with The Examiner newspaper in Launceston. He was an ABC foreign correspondent based in Singapore (1988-1990) and Hong Kong Bureau Chief (1990-1992). Tony won a Logie and a Gold Medal in the New York Television Festival for reporting the crushing of student riots in Bangkok, and was a Walkley Award finalist for his coverage of Tiananmen Square demonstrations in Beijing.
Returning to Australia, Tony presented First Edition, the ABC's breakfast TV news show (1993-1995) from Melbourne, and then moved to ABC Radio Current Affairs in Sydney where he hosted The World Today (1995-1997). In 1998 he was appointed presenter of the TV news program, World At Noon, which had a strong political, economic and international focus and required Tony to do a wide range of live interviews.
Eastley also presented the 7:00pm TV News in NSW and moved back to radio in 2004, when he replaced Linda Mottram in the AM chair.
He is married with two children and when not reporting and presenting can be found sailing on Sydney Harbour in his old wooden sailing boat that turns 70 this year.
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