Rhianna Patrick
{{Short description|Australian radio announcer (born 1977)}}
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Rhianna Patrick (born 1977){{cite news| title =Rhianna Patrick| work =Visible Ink: Profiles| publisher =Brisbane City Council| url =http://www.visible-ink.org/default.aspx?tabid=55&mid=110&itemid=222| accessdate =2007-10-31| url-status =dead| archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20050629040829/http://www.visible-ink.org/default.aspx?tabid=55&mid=110&itemid=222#222| archivedate =29 June 2005| df =dmy-all}} is a Torres Strait Islander radio personality who was born in Brisbane{{Cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/profiles/content/s2181979.htm|title=Rhianna Patrick Profile|last=|first=|date=|website=ABC|access-date=27 May 2017}} and lived in Weipa as a child, moving to Brisbane aged 10. She has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland in 1999 with a double major in journalism.{{Cite web|url=https://uqnews.drupal.uq.edu.au/article/1999/12/queensland-art-gallery-director-honoured-uq-graduation-ceremony|title=Queensland Art Gallery director honoured at UQ graduation ceremony 21 December 1999|last=|first=|date=|website=UQ News|access-date=27 May 2017}} She has worked in radio and television.{{Cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/rhianna-patrick/3173320|title=Rhianna Patrick|last=|first=|date=|website=ABC|access-date=27 May 2017}}
Career
While studying she worked at 4AAA Indigenous Radio Station as the Breakfast announcer for nearly three years and also as the rugby reporter on the station's sports show. In 2002 she joined the ABC in Sydney as a cadet and spent a year in Mackay. She returned to Sydney in 2004 working as newsreader in the Triple J News Team for the ABC where she has continued her career in radio and television.
She worked on the Indigenous television program Message Stick in various roles including as an Associate Producer/Researcher.
She produced, directed and wrote A Close Shave (2002) a documentary on a young Torres Strait Islander boy; directed Coming of the Light (2006); wrote Troubled Waters (2007){{Cite web|url=https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/troubled-waters-2007/26204?stxt=|title=Troubled Waters 2007|last=|first=|date=|website=Screen Australia|access-date=27 May 2017}} and was co-writer of Stylin'up{{Cite web|url=https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/4077---stylin-up-2007/26798?stxt=|title=Stylin' Up (2007)|last=|first=|date=|website=Screen Australia|access-date=27 May 2017}} (2007) all part of the Message Stick series{{Cite web|url=https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/a-close-shave-2002/24002?stxt=|title=A Close Shave 2002|last=|first=|date=|website=Screen Australia|access-date=27 May 2017}}
For 5 years until early 2014 Patrick hosted Speaking Out on radio. Then she moved to Brisbane until mid-April to act as stand-in host of Afternoon in south-east Queensland.{{Cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2013/12/09/3907813.htm|title=Rhianna Patrick is speaking out on Afternoons in 2014 By Emma Sykes 17 January 2014|last=|first=|date=|website=ABC|access-date=27 May 2017}}
She was also presenting stories on Awaye! Radio Nationals indigenous arts and culture radio programme in 2014. In 2017 she presented a radio series on Sunday evenings which included the discussion of films, music, nostalgia, and current news topics and playing music.{{Cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/rhiannapatrick/|title=Rhianna Patrick with Rhianna Patrick|last=|first=|date=|website=ABC|access-date=27 May 2017}}
Rhianna Patrick was on the program to appear at two events for the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.{{Cite web|url=http://uplit.com.au/|title=Brisbane Writers Festival 2017|last=|first=|date=|website=Uplit|access-date=4 September 2017}}
Private life
References
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External links
- [http://www.abc.net.au/speakingout/default.htm Speaking Out Website]
- [http://www.abc.net.au/message/radio/awaye/ms_opera/rhianna.htm Message Stick]: Rhianna Patrick
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