2016 Host
Anjali Rao
Anjali Rao is a multi-award winning journalist who has spent 20 years in the top tiers of television news. Since moving to Australia in 2012, she has frequently hosted on Studio 10 and The Project, and was principal anchor of Australia’s acclaimed international current affairs programme, Dateline. Born to an Indian father and Australian mother, Anjali was raised in Hong Kong, educated in the UK, but is now based in Australia.
For six years, Rao worked at CNN International hosting the weekday breakfast program as well as the network’s weekly chat show, Talk Asia. Earlier, she worked as an anchor at both Sky News and Channel 5 News in London.
During her career, Rao has interviewed some of the world’s highest profile personalities in politics, fashion and sport. She has covered numerous breaking news events such as the 9/11 attacks, the 2004 Asian tsunami the death of Pope John Paul II, the 7/7 bombings in London, the 2008 siege of Mumbai, and the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan.
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David Wenham
David Wenham is one of Australia’s most revered and popular actors. Since his 1998 breakthrough in the acclaimed crime drama The Boys (1998) and much-loved SeaChange (1998-1999), Wenham has remained one of the Australian industry’s biggest stars with memorable roles in Better Than Sex (2000), Gettin’ Square (2003) and Oranges and Sunshine (2010) alongside international box office-conquering hits like The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003), 300 (2006) and Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! (2001) and Australia (2008)
In addition to appearing on stage in The Crucible and in Jane Campion’s award-winning television miniseries Top of the Lake (2013), Wenham has also ventured into directing with the short film Commission, which was a part of the APSA-nominated omnibus feature The Turning (2013). Nominated for 13 AACTA Awards, winning three, Wenham was most recently seen in the outback western Goldstone and in 2017 will be seen in the APSA-nominated Lion (2016) and The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales alongside Johnny Depp.
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