Dominique Schwartz is an Australian communications specialist and former television journalist and news presenter. She is best known for her association with the

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, where she worked as a foreign correspondent and as anchor of ABC TV's 7pm

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Career

Born in Sydney but growing up in Perth, Schwartz began her media career in 1982 when she secured a cadetship at the ABC after graduating from high school, working in the newsrooms for both

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and ABC Radio. She then moved to the ABC in Melbourne where she was based in the ABC's radio current affairs department, working on programs such as '' AM'' and '' The World Today''. In 1986, she moved to SBS where she was one of four permanent Melbourne-based reporters for ''

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''. Following a brief period with the

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where she worked on '' Terry Willesee Tonight'', Schwartz relocated to Japan. In Japan, she was an editor for

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's news wire service while also working as a reporter and presenter for

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. In 1992, Schwartz became a founding reporter for ABC TV's new current affairs program ''

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'', hosted by

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. She worked on the program as a full time reporter for six years before becoming an occasional contributor after being appointed as the ABC's Jerusalem-based

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correspondent in 1997. In this role she continued filing stories for ''Foreign Correspondent'' as well as ''

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'' and ''

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''. Schwartz was appointed as the anchor of the

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n edition of ''ABC News'' on

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in 2001. She continued in this role until 2010 when she took up the position as the ABC's New Zealand correspondent in 2010. In late 2014, Schwartz returned to Australia when she became the ABC's national rural and regional correspondent, based in

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. Her time at the ABC came to an end in 2020 when she was one of a number of high profile presenters and reporters whose positions were made redundant. Since leaving the ABC, Schwartz has worked as the associate director of communications for the Regional Australia Institute and as the senior associate of communications for

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Awards

In 1996, Schwartz won the

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gold award at the

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for her ''Foreign Correspondent'' story about

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's quest to ending

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. In 2002, Schwartz received the Barbara Polkinghorne Award in South Australia for her contribution to the media. Schwartz has also won two

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. She was recognised in the All Media - Rural Journalism category for her " Death Row Dingoes" story in 2017 and was the co-recipient of the same award for the " Tension on the Tracks" story with Alexandra Blucher in 2018.

References

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