Bridget Brennan

Bridget Brennan is an Australian journalist.

Brennan is co-host of the ABC's breakfast program News Breakfast alongside James Glenday.

She is a Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung woman. She is niece to painter Angela Brennan.

Career Brennan joined the ABC as a cadet journalist in 2010. From 2011 to 2013, she was based in Darwin where she worked as a radio and television reporter. This was a role she continued until she was appointed as the ABC's London-based Europe correspondent. leading mainstream and specialist programming like that for NAIDOC week.

On 14 June 2020, Brennan seemingly became the first non-white panelist on ABC TV's Sunday morning current affairs program Insiders. The invitation to appear on Insiders was issued after criticism the program received, including from Brennan, for having an all-white panel (consisting of Patricia Karvelas, David Crowe and Katharine Murphy) discuss the Black Lives Matter movement the week prior. When asked about the issue on Insiders, Brennan stated: "It is not good enough any more, particularly at this moment, but I would say any week, to have a panel of white people speaking about issues when there is very little lived experience of discrimination and racism on that panel."

Along with Dan Bourchier, Brennan co-hosted a special edition of Speaking Up on the ABC News channel about the Uluru Statement from the Heart and the Indigenous Voice to Parliament on 6 July 2022.

Following Leigh Sales' decision to step down from hosting 7.30 in 2022, Brennan was reported to be one of three ABC journalists approached by senior ABC management about potentially succeeding Sales on the program, with the others being Sarah Ferguson and David Speers.

In November 2023, ABC announced that Brennan will join News Breakfast as news presenter and co-host the show one day per week whilst Lisa Millar works on other projects.

In August 2024, Brennan was appointed as Lisa Millar's replacement as co-host of News Breakfast. Brennan was also part of the panel for 2025 Australian Federal Election coverage.

In 2025, Brennan was the subject of a painting by Angela Brennan for the Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW.

Awards Brennan was part of the first female Indigenous Four Corners reporting team when they investigated the issue of femicide experienced by First Nations women in Australia. Brennan along with Suzanne Dredge, Brooke Fryer and Stephanie Zillman won the Gold Quill at the 2023 Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards for the Four Corners report, entitled "How many more?". The story also won the Quill Award for Excellence in Indigenous Affairs reporting. Brennan accused the newspaper of "traumatising, unethical and appalling reporting." Despite racist personal attacks against her Brennan has continued to be an advocate.

In the leadup to the 2025 Australian Federal Election and in response to racist remarks during Anzac Day celebrations, Brennan advocated for the Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country.