Joe O'Brien

Joe O'Brien (born 1968 or 1969) is an Australian journalist and news presenter.

O'Brien is best known for his lengthy tenure hosting ABC News Mornings on the ABC News channel, which he has hosted since the channel's inception in 2010 until 2023.

He joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1995, initially based at the local ABC station in Rockhampton, Queensland before moving to Brisbane where he worked as a reporter and presenter. O'Brien then moved to Sydney, where he regularly anchored The Midday Report on ABC TV.

As the ABC prepared to launch its new 24-hour news channel in 2010, O'Brien was announced as one of its presenters in April 2010. He commenced hosting ABC News Mornings on 23 July 2010.

In May 2023, O'Brien announced that after 13 years he will switch from hosting ABC News Mornings to host ABC Evening News on the ABC News channel.

Personal life O'Brien grew up in Innisfail, Queensland after his parents moved from New South Wales with their four young children around 1970.

In 1999, he performed as a back-up dancer for Dannii Minogue at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

O'Brien was a brother-in-law to Australian rugby league player Peter Jackson, who died from a heroin overdose in 1997, and in 2015, he introduced an Australian Story episode which profiled his sister, Jackson's widow Siobhan Jackson.

O'Brien is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 having received his first dose of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in May 2021 and his second dose in July 2021. A photo of him after receiving his second dose garnered attention due to his prominent biceps.