NEWS ALERT: Madonna King as MC!

Madonna King will also be joining us at the Office Professionals Big Afternoon Out as Master of Ceremonies and will make a wonderful addition to the afternoon’s proceedings. Madonna is best known for her role as weekly Courier-Mail columnist and 612 ABC Brisbane Mornings presenter.

An award winning journalist, Madonna King is one of Queensland’s best-known and regarded commentators and authors. Her weekly column in The Courier-Mail – on issues ranging from the Big Brother phenomenon to the future of our Constitution – is compulsory reading for the State’s decision makers. Last year, after reading one of them, the State Government handed over a $350,000 cheque to the Royal Children’s Hospital. Others, which have revealed battlers fighting injustices, has led to the law being overhauled. It was legal injustices that became the subject when Madonna embarked on a career as an author last year. Her first book Catalyst, based on interviews with more than 130 people, looks at how individuals can join with the media to force politicians to right a wrong. The Bali Nine was the subject of Madonna’s second book (co-authored with journalist Cindy Wockner).

Madonna is married with two daughters, aged two and one.

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