Born and raised in Perth, Geraldine Doogue AO is a renowned Australian journalist and broadcaster much respected for her work reporting on religious and social affairs and on Australia’s place in the world.

Geraldine has carved out an enviable reputation across print, television and radio, starting on “The West Australian” in Perth, before moving to The Australian, ABC’s Nationwide, 2UE, Channel 10 news, hosting ABC TV’s Compass program and continuing in various roles on ABC RN and via podcasting.

She played a major role in ABC TV's coverage of the Gulf War in 1991, being awarded two Penguin Awards and a United Nations Media Peace Prize. She is proud of developing two innovative, generalist radio programmes alongside very good ABC colleagues: from 1992, Life Matters, a new way of covering the full gamut of social issues in everyday life and introducing fresh voices to this debate, including the public themselves. And from 2005-2023 Saturday Extra, with its aim to highlight the worth of ambitious but accessible reporting of foreign and international affairs along with good books and good travel. She prioritised hearing from a wide range of Australians and overseas contributors, tackling them with rigour, optimism, humour and warmth, in order to engage people with the wider world and its thinkers.

She's developed this further from 2024, with colleague Hamish Macdonald, into an exciting new collaboration, "Global Roaming", which is both a popular podcast and also heard free-to-air on RN. They showcase lively, contemporary thinking about Australia's place in the world and on key developments internationally in culture and geo-politics.

Geraldine takes a keen interest in ongoing developments in various areas of modern life, like the relationship between Islam and the Western world, co-producing an ABC documentary series Tomorrow's Islam in 2003 with Peter Kirkwood. In 2005 the pair co-authored a book Tomorrow's Islam: Uniting Age-old Beliefs and a Modern World. She has contributed to various books and publications on Catholic Church dilemmas and in 2014 was editor of The Climb: Conversations with Australian Women in Power.

In 2000, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for social and cultural reporting. In 2003 she was honoured with the title of Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to the community and media related to ethics, values, religion and social change. In 2018, she was delighted to be admitted to the Australian Media Hall of Fame and has been awarded several honorary doctorates by Australian universities.