my country childhood

THE ABC WAS HELD in Very high regard in the Millar household when Lisa Millar was growing up. “Our life was dictated by the ABC radio on the wireless in the kitchen in the mornings, then the 7pm ABC news in the evening. Dad would tap the side of his dinner plate with his knife for quiet, because you didn’t talk during the news,” she recalls fondly.

Now, after almost 30 years working for the public broadcaster in Australia and overseas, Lisa, the current co-host of , considers herself lucky to be able to go to work and do what she loves every day. “I still feel like a kid in a lolly shop with my job,” says the 52-year-old. “There are so few people who get to say that. I’m incredibly grateful that I’ve been able to do something