Patricia Karvelas


Patricia Karvelas is an Australian radio presenter, current affairs journalist and political correspondent.
Karvelas currently hosts RN Drive on Radio National and Afternoon Briefing on ABC News.

Education

Karvelas graduated from RMIT University

Career

Karvelas has presented Radio National's program RN Drive since January 2015 and from 2018 she has hosted Afternoon Briefing, a national affairs television program on the ABC News 24 channel.
She previously worked for The Australian newspaper, covering federal politics, and Karvelas, a weekly program on Sky News Australia. While at the Australian, Karvelas authored a series of six articles relating to a tweet made by Aboriginal Australian legal academic and writer Larissa Behrendt, which Ms Behrendt has described as a character assassination.
Since April 2016, Karvelas has cohosted with Fran Kelly a weekly political podcast The Party Room.. In 2018, she commenced as host of the weekly interview-based national affairs program National Wrap.
Her journalist career began around the year 2000 with the ABC and SBS. In 2019, she spoke at WOMADelaide.

Personal life

Karvelas is Greek-Australian, her parents originate from the Peloponnese region of Greece.