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Who is Bridget Brennan? Meet the new host of ABC News Breakfast - and how her controversial Australia Day act sparked fury


Incoming co-host of ABC News Breakfast Bridget Brennan has revealed that her new role was an 'important moment' for Indigenous people.

After a stint in Hong Kong with CNN, Brennan returned to the ABC in 2014 as a reporter for national radio current affairs shows AM, The World Today and PM. 'What a blast the past five years has been, whether it was interviewing prime ministers and global thought leaders or getting karaoke encouragement from my childhood idol Gladys Knight,' Millar said on-air in July. Her departure from ABC News Breakfast comes after she unleashed on 'disgusting' online trolls who'd criticised her appearance back in March, while also slamming media coverage of the abuse she'd copped.

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