Kate O'Toole

Australia Broadcast Center

26-05-2025

Kate O'Toole's first job in the ABC was with the Rural Department.
Working as a rural reporter she lived in Port Pirie (SA), Mackay (Qld) and Port Macquarie (NSW). She eventually became the presenter of the NSW Country Hour, working with a team of nine reporters across the state.
Kate was the presenter of current affairs show Hack on the national triple j network for four years, working with a team of talented reporters on the highly produced show.
In that role she interviewed politicians like Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, presented a special broadcast from Canberra for the Apology to the Stolen Generations, covered two federal elections and also discussed with her audience intimate social issues like the politics of casual sex or mental health.
Most recently, she presented the Drive program at ABC Darwin before making the move to the Gold Coast.
A lover of radio, Kate relishes the immediacy, the power to connect people and the democracy of the medium. And she loves that it's relatively cheap to make so you don't have management wanting to sign off on every little detail. (ed: management are lovely though).
She loves listening to the radio - especially in the mornings and in the kitchen making dinner. In fact Kate is much more likely to be found dancing in her kitchen than dancing in a nightclub.