Kay McGrath
Encyclopedia
Kay McGrath is an award winning journalist who is a presenter of Seven News
in Brisbane
, Australia
, along with Rod Young
.
Formerly a newsreader at TVQ-0 Kay presented a national breakfast news/finance show called TVAM on the Seven Network in 1988 from Sydney and the following year McGrath joined the Seven News Brisbane team in 1989, has had a distinguished career by reporting on the Fitzgerald Inquiry
, as well as the Brisbane airport hijacking, and reporting on-location after Cyclone Larry
hit Innisfail, and more recently on the Sunshine Coast
in the aftermath of Steve Irwin's death.
A campaigner against child abuse
, she also hosted the number of documentaries including Behind Closed Doors: Child Abuse in Queensland.
During her time with Seven, McGrath has reported for and co-hosted a series of documentaries on local social issues, including the acclaimed special, "Behind Closed Doors: Child Abuse in Queensland".
Off camera, Kay is committed to a number of community issues.
A campaigner against child abuse, she is patron of the organisation, Protect All Children Today (PACT), and an ambassador for The Abused Child Trust. For a number of years McGrath has also chaired the committee that organises Child Protection Week activities in Queensland during September.
Kay is also committed to the fight against breast cancer, and is a vice patron of the Breast Cancer Association of Queensland.
She has two sons, Nicholas and Joseph.
Seven News
Seven News is the television news service of the Seven Network in Australia.National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth. The network also produces Seven...
in Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, along with Rod Young
Rod Young
Rod Young is the presenter of the Brisbane bulletin of Seven News with Kay McGrath.Before moving to the Seven Network, Rod was the face of news in Brisbane on the ABC where he began working in the late 1970s. Rod has had a distinguished career after starting in radio at station 2GO at Gosford on...
.
Formerly a newsreader at TVQ-0 Kay presented a national breakfast news/finance show called TVAM on the Seven Network in 1988 from Sydney and the following year McGrath joined the Seven News Brisbane team in 1989, has had a distinguished career by reporting on the Fitzgerald Inquiry
Fitzgerald Inquiry
The Fitzgerald Inquiry into Queensland Police corruption was a judicial inquiry presided over by Tony Fitzgerald QC. The inquiry resulted in the deposition of a premier, two by-elections, the jailing of three former ministers and a police commissioner who was jailed and lost his...
, as well as the Brisbane airport hijacking, and reporting on-location after Cyclone Larry
Cyclone Larry
Severe Tropical Cyclone Larry was a tropical cyclone that made landfall in Australia during the 2005-06 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season. Larry originated as a low pressure system over the eastern Coral Sea on 16 March and was monitored by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in...
hit Innisfail, and more recently on the Sunshine Coast
Sunshine Coast, Queensland
The Sunshine Coast is an urban area in South East Queensland, north of the state capital of Brisbane on the Pacific Ocean coastline. Although it does not have a central business district, by population it ranks as the 10th largest metropolis in Australia and the third largest in...
in the aftermath of Steve Irwin's death.
A campaigner against child abuse
Child abuse
Child abuse is the physical, sexual, emotional mistreatment, or neglect of a child. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Children And Families define child maltreatment as any act or series of acts of commission or omission by a parent or...
, she also hosted the number of documentaries including Behind Closed Doors: Child Abuse in Queensland.
During her time with Seven, McGrath has reported for and co-hosted a series of documentaries on local social issues, including the acclaimed special, "Behind Closed Doors: Child Abuse in Queensland".
Off camera, Kay is committed to a number of community issues.
A campaigner against child abuse, she is patron of the organisation, Protect All Children Today (PACT), and an ambassador for The Abused Child Trust. For a number of years McGrath has also chaired the committee that organises Child Protection Week activities in Queensland during September.
Kay is also committed to the fight against breast cancer, and is a vice patron of the Breast Cancer Association of Queensland.
She has two sons, Nicholas and Joseph.