THE AUSTRALIAN Woman's Weekly women of the future Veeda MEET the JUDGES
Brooke BONEY
Entertainment reporter for Today, Channel Nine
As the high-profile entertainment reporter for the Nine Network’s Today, Brooke Boney is full of enviable stories about Hollywood premieres. But she’ll just as quickly turn the conversation to examples of inspiring strength – political and otherwise – that she has admired this year.
“Some of the best leadership we’ve seen around the world has been from female leaders,” she says. “If there’s anything we can take from this, I hope that it is you don’t have to be the toughest, the loudest, the strongest to succeed and to win.”
Brooke’s background is in political journalism, on which she cut her teeth in Canberra for National Indigenous Television (NITV). She also produced Sydney’s Koori Radio morning program Blackchat before going to her university classes.
She returned to radio in 2016, winning fans while presenting news bulletins for ABC radio’s triple j – which she opened with the greeting “Yaama”, which means hello in the indigenous language of northern NSW. Brooke is a Gamilaroi Gomeroi woman, and says she is grateful to have been surrounded by incredible women in her working life – notably journalist-turned-senator Malarndirri McCarthy, who was at NITV with
