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Born: Established: 1945 Brisbane, Queensland, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Journalist.

Born in Brisbane, Queensland, and educated at St Laurence's College, O'Brien started as a news cadet in 1966, at Channel 9 in Brisbane. He has worked in newspapers, wire service and television news and current affairs, as a general reporter, feature writer, political and foreign correspondent, interviewer, and compére.

After six years heading the ABC's Lateline program, O'Brien moved to The 7:30 Report in 1995. In December 2010, he concluded his long-running role with the program; he later took up hosting Four Corners, in October 2010, a position from which he stepped down in 2015.

He has won many accolades, including six Walkley Awards, among them the Gold Walkley.

After presenting Keating: The Interviews as an ABC series in 2013, he wrote a biography of former Prime Minister Paul Keating, with which Keating co-operated.

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y separately published work icon Keating Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2015 8772582 2015 selected work interview biography

'The life of one of Australia's most intriguing public figures, former Prime Minister Paul Keating, as told to the country's most influential political interviewer, Kerry O'Brien. This long awaited collaboration is a biography unlike any other.

'Paul Keating, visionary, reformer, true believer, rabble rouser, polymath, and our most intriguing prime minister bares his soul to the country's sharpest political interviewer, Kerry O'Brien.

'O'Brien and Keating wrestle with history to produce a tour de force of political wisdom and personal insight that weaves through the Keating years in a unique and compelling way.

'Building on the transcripts of the must-watch ABC TV event of 2013 - Keating: the Interviews - O'Brien has gathered an enormous bank of new material, gleaned during many hours of further conversation with Keating, to create a book that is more forensic and all encompassing than the very successful TV series.

'Kerry O'Brien captures the hallmarks of the man - the nimble mind, the wit, the grandeur of vision, the complexity and the stubborn drive for power - as Keating explains the historic events, back room stoushes and moments of drama and pathos that the political world inevitably holds.' (Publication summary)
2016 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Biography of the Year
y separately published work icon Keating Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2015 8772582 2015 selected work interview biography

'The life of one of Australia's most intriguing public figures, former Prime Minister Paul Keating, as told to the country's most influential political interviewer, Kerry O'Brien. This long awaited collaboration is a biography unlike any other.

'Paul Keating, visionary, reformer, true believer, rabble rouser, polymath, and our most intriguing prime minister bares his soul to the country's sharpest political interviewer, Kerry O'Brien.

'O'Brien and Keating wrestle with history to produce a tour de force of political wisdom and personal insight that weaves through the Keating years in a unique and compelling way.

'Building on the transcripts of the must-watch ABC TV event of 2013 - Keating: the Interviews - O'Brien has gathered an enormous bank of new material, gleaned during many hours of further conversation with Keating, to create a book that is more forensic and all encompassing than the very successful TV series.

'Kerry O'Brien captures the hallmarks of the man - the nimble mind, the wit, the grandeur of vision, the complexity and the stubborn drive for power - as Keating explains the historic events, back room stoushes and moments of drama and pathos that the political world inevitably holds.' (Publication summary)
2016 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Biography of the Year
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