Jenny Brockie (born 1954 or 1955) is an Australian journalist and documentary-maker, she has previously hosted the SBS program, ''

Insight Insight is the understanding of a specific cause and effect within a particular context. The term insight can have several related meanings: *a piece of information *the act or result of understanding the inner nature of things or of seeing intu ...

''. Brockie has spent more than 20 years in broadcasting, reporting nationally and internationally for ABC current affairs programs including ''

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'' and ''Nationwide''.

Early life

Brockie was born in

Castle Hill, New South Wales Castle Hill is a suburb of Greater Western Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, located 34 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district and 9.5 kilometres north of Parramatta. It is within the Hills District, New South ...

, an only child. Brockie's father died when she was four years old.

Career

Brockie began her broadcasting career with ABC television and radio news. She presented the morning radio show on

702 ABC Sydney ABC Radio Sydney (official call sign: 2BL, formerly 2SB) is an Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC radio station in Sydney, Australia. It is the flagship station in the ABC Local Radio network and broadcasts on 702 hertz, kHz on the AM bro ...

as well as her own interview series for ''Speaking Personally'' for ABC TV. Her feature-length television documentaries have won various awards. Her film ''Cop It Sweet'' about Sydney's Redfern police won the coveted 1992

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, a 1992

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for Best Television Documentary, a

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, a Human Rights Award and the NSW Law Society Award. In 2001, Brockie was appointed host of the current affairs show ''

'' on

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. In October 2020, Brockie announced her resignation from ''

,'' after hosting the show for two decades.

Awards and honours

In 2008, Brockie received a

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for her work on ''Insight''.

References

External links

Profile from Jenny Brockie's agent
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