Kristy O'Brien(II)
Kristy O'Brien, a farm girl from Queensland's Darling Downs, began her television career at 16.
She fell in love with Northern Australia when she moved to the Northern Territory's Darwin newsroom in 2009.
Kristy is an accomplished documentary producer with a 2012 digital series called Cattle Scars about the fallout of the live cattle export trade to Indonesia.
She was named Screen Producers Australia's One to Watch for her documentary Tough Ride about the issue of brain injury among young people in regional Australia.
In 2017, she was awarded Best Current Affairs Journalist in the Northern Territory and followed up in 2018 with the South Australia/Northern Territory Rural Journalist of the Year and Best Television Broadcast Reporter for her coverage of regional issues.
She fell in love with Northern Australia when she moved to the Northern Territory's Darwin newsroom in 2009.
Kristy is an accomplished documentary producer with a 2012 digital series called Cattle Scars about the fallout of the live cattle export trade to Indonesia.
She was named Screen Producers Australia's One to Watch for her documentary Tough Ride about the issue of brain injury among young people in regional Australia.
In 2017, she was awarded Best Current Affairs Journalist in the Northern Territory and followed up in 2018 with the South Australia/Northern Territory Rural Journalist of the Year and Best Television Broadcast Reporter for her coverage of regional issues.
