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Richard Aedy

Presenter of Life Matters program on ABC Radio National. Life Matters is a unique daily interview program about social change and day-to-day life - workplace reform to education, health, family relationships, and social change.

Biographical Notes from ABC Website

Richard Aedy grew up in Sydney and Canberra but has spent most of his adult life overseas. He has been a journalist since 1988, when he completed his studies for a Diploma in Journalism at the Auckland Technical Institute in New Zealand. Despite more than 17 years in journalism, Richard still finds himself interested in 'almost everything'.

He began his career across the Tasman with Independent Radio News and later Radio New Zealand before moving to the UK. He spent five years in London—most of that time with the BBC—where he was an award-winning program maker. Richard joined Radio National in 1998, firstly as executive producer of radio science before returning to broadcasting.

Richard's appetite for a broad range of issues is reflected by his on-air career with ABC Radio National: in 2001 he presented the technology show, The Buzz , before becoming host of the Media Report in 2005. Towards the end of that year he stood in as presenter of Life Matters after Julie McCrossin left the program. In between all that, he was invited to spend three months at Oxford University in 2004 as the ABC's Reuters Foundation Programme Fellow—he wrote a paper on Preventing State Failure in Papua New Guinea .

Richard has a large family, including four sisters, nine nieces and nephews, a formidable mother and a wife who is brighter than he is. He also has two young children who routinely outwit him. With only one television in the house, Richard does not get to watch nearly enough sport.