Virginia Trioli Instagram – A few words from me …
Before I returned to work in April, after my long break over summer, I informed my managers here at ABC Radio Melbourne that I needed to step down from the position of presenting Mornings on this station.
And I will do that on Friday September 15 – almost exactly four years to the day that I took on this role.
Instead, I have been incredibly lucky to be asked by the ABC to move to television, to present a new prime time arts show for ABC TV in 2024.
After a difficult period of dealing with multiple illnesses in my family, and with the realisation that you’re lucky if you get EVEN ONE warning about how long you have on this earth with the people you love, I now find myself at that stage of life that requires me to live and work in a different way.
And after almost 20 years of working to the hardest alarms that the ABC has to offer – presenting Mornings on ABC Radio Sydney, 11 years as the founding anchor of News Breakfast, and on Melbourne mornings here – it’s a change that feels unavoidable for me right now.
When I was offered this position, I did not hesitate to say yes – both because of my deep love of radio and this ABC Melbourne audience, and also because of my commitment to the task of holding those in power to account.
That hasn’t always made me many friends with those in power.
But that goes way back with me … I was never going to be any different!
I have many many thanks to make – but they can come later.
Right now — I want to thank you, the listeners.
We have been through a great deal.
Fires and pandemic and floods and a cost of living crisis that is re-shaping our understanding of what is possible for us and our families in Australia.
Some of our years together in Melbourne have been very very hard indeed.
And only you and I will ever know what being here for each other day after day has been like over the last four years.
Don’t ever let anyone try to tell you what that was, and what that was like.
We lived it.
We know it.
And I was honoured to have the grave responsibility of being in this chair while we went through it. @abcinmelbourne @abctv #work #life #family #virginiatrioli | Posted on 01/Sep/2023 02:54:03