Pip Courtney

Pip Courtney started her journalism career at the ABC in Hobart Tasmania 38 years ago. Pip has worked for radio and television news, and the 7.30 Report but is predominantly known for her 30 years reporting on the ABC’s rural affairs television program, Landline. Rural reporting wasn’t her initial goal. Pip wanted to be a political reporter. After graduating with a degree in Politics and English she joined ABC radio news in Hobart in 1986, but after filing a few political stories Pip realised politics wasn’t for her. After 7 years in Tasmania working in radio and then TV news, she moved to Canberra to work for Landline in 1993. She’s been based in Canberra, Melbourne and now Brisbane, and was appointed host in 2012. She‘s won numerous awards in business, most notably, Queensland journalist of the year with Sally Sara in 2007, and the international Star Prize for agricultural Journalism in 2011. Pip was inducted into Queensland’s Rural Journalism Hall of Fame in 2018 and most recently won the national Star Prize for Rural Broadcasting. (this hasn’t been announced yet but will be by the time of the event.). Rural reporting has taken Pip to Peru, Timor Leste, the USA, Cambodia and Laos, and hopes one day to add the Netherlands and the UK to her list.