39 Australian women journalists

Thelma Afford was an Australian costume designer, theatre performer, and fashion journalist who worked in Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney.

Eliza Ann Ashton was an English-born Australian journalist and social reformer. She wrote for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Daily Telegraph in Sydney under the names Faustine and Mrs Julian Ashton. She was a founding member of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales.

Dora Birtles, was an Australian novelist, short-story writer, poet and travel writer. She was the daughter of Albert Toll, founder of Toll Holdings, Australia's largest logistics company.

Emily Hemans Bulcock (1877–1969) was an Australian poet and journalist.

Cheng Lei is a Chinese-born Australian television news anchor and business reporter. She served as a prominent news anchor for Chinese state owned English-language news channel CGTN in Beijing from 2012 to 2020 and also hosted the Global Business programme which airs on CGTN.

Rachel Corbett is an Australian podcaster, television and radio presenter and writer.

Anna Coren is an Australian journalist and former news anchor who is an international correspondent with CNN based in Hong Kong.

Annabel Crabb is an Australian political journalist, commentator and television host who is the ABC's chief online political writer. She has worked for Adelaide's The Advertiser, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the Sunday Age and The Sun-Herald, and won a Walkley Award in 2009 for her Quarterly Essay, "Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull". She has written two books covering events within the Australian Labor Party, as well as The Wife Drought, a book about women's work–life balance. She has hosted ABC television shows Kitchen Cabinet, The House, and Back in Time for Dinner.

Caroline Dexter was an English-Australian dress reformer, writer, and feminist.

Edith Charlotte Musgrave Dickenson (1851–1903) was an English-born Australian journalist and a war correspondent during the Boer War in South Africa.

Geraldine Frances Doogue is an Australian journalist and radio and television presenter.

Dorothy Drain (1909–1996) was an Australian journalist, columnist, war correspondent, editor and poet. She worked as a journalist with The Australian Women's Weekly for 38 years, with the final five years being as its editor. She was "one of Australia's best-known journalists".

Kate Forsyth is an Australian author. She is best known for her historical novel Bitter Greens, which interweaves a retelling of the Rapunzel fairy tale with the true life story of the woman who first told the tale, the 17th century French writer Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force.

Georgie Gardner is an Australian television and news presenter and journalist.

Helen Garner is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garner's first novel, Monkey Grip, published in 1977, immediately established her as an original voice on the Australian literary scene–it is now widely considered a classic. She has a reputation for incorporating and adapting her personal experiences in her fiction, something that has brought her widespread attention, particularly with her novels, Monkey Grip and The Spare Room (2008).

Agnes Knight Goode, née Fleming, best known as Mrs. A. K. Goode, was an Australian social and political activist. A contemporary report called her "... a vigorous speaker, with a keen, logical mind and experience backed with sound commonsense, Mrs. Goode was until her later years frequently called on to take the public platform in support of social welfare movements."

Michelle Grattan is an Australian journalist who was the first woman to become editor of an Australian metropolitan daily newspaper. Specialising in political journalism, she has written and edited for many significant Australian newspapers. She is currently the chief political correspondent with The Conversation, Australia's largest independent news website.

Wendy Harmer is an Australian author, children's writer, playwright and dramatist, radio show host, comedian, and television personality. She is host of ABC Radio Sydney's Morning radio program.

Alice Henry was an Australian suffragist, journalist and trade unionist who also became prominent in the American trade union movement as a member of the Women's Trade Union League.

Jennifer Hocking (1929–2011) was an Australian-born British-based fashion model in the 1950s and early 1960s, who then became fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and Queen. Whilst there, she gave Anna Wintour her first magazine job. Hocking then pursued fashion design, before rediscovering success as a mature model in the 1990s, when she was described as a "grande dame" after her appearance in Mario Testino's shoots for Burberry.

Harriet (Ettie) Hooton was a West Australian women's activist and editor. She was active in a number of organisations including the Women's Service Guild, the National Council of Women in Western Australia, the Australian Natives Association and the Australian Labor Federation. She was the first secretary of the Western Australian Parents and Citizens Association.

Del Irani, also known as Delnaaz Irani, is an Indian-Australian journalist based in the United States. She is the anchor of Deeper Look from New York on NHK World-Japan and a host on the ABC (Australia) lifestyle show Escape From The City.

Patricia Karvelas is an Australian radio presenter, current affairs journalist and political correspondent.

Gertrude Langer (1908–1984) was Austrian-born art critic in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She was prominent in the Queensland Art Gallery and other arts organisations.

Sylvia Lawson was a journalist, academic and author, known for her support for cinema in Australia through her work with the Sydney Film Festival from its inception in 1954. She wrote The Archibald Paradox, a study of The Bulletin and its founder, J. F. Archibald.

Claire Lehmann is an Australian journalist and the founding editor of Quillette.

Gabrielle Craig Lord is an Australian writer who has been described as Australia's first lady of crime. She has published a wide range of writing including reviews, articles, short stories and non-fiction, but she is best known for her psychological thrillers.

Professor Catharine Lumby is an Australian academic, author and journalist, currently Professor of Media in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University.

Amy Eleanor Mack, also known as Amy Eleanor Harrison and Mrs. Launcelot Harrison, was an Australian writer, journalist, and editor. She was honorary secretary of the National Council of Women of New South Wales. She is best known as a children's author of such books as Bushland stories (1910) and Scribbling Sue (1914) and others, as well as a journalist and an editor of Sydney Morning Herald.

Prudence Gai MacSween is an Australian television and radio personality, journalist, social commentator and public relations director. She is the public relations director of Verve Communications, and as a media commentator, MacSween has made a number of controversial comments.

Hollie McKay is an Australian-American journalist for Fox News. She is a national bureau correspondent covering national and international news from Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen and Myanmar.

Phoebe McWilliams is an Australian rules footballer playing for Geelong in the AFL Women's competition. She was signed as a priority player before the 2016 AFL Women's draft. She made her debut against Adelaide at Thebarton Oval in round one of the 2017 season. McWilliams played every match in her debut season to finish with seven games, and was Greater Western Sydney's top goal-kicker with seven goals.

Leigh Peta Sales is an Australian journalist and author. She is the host of the Australian television channel ABC's news and current affairs program 7.30. In 2019, she was awarded an Order of Australia for her services to broadcast journalism.

Irene Frances Taylor was an Australian journalist and activist. She was the founder of the women's monthly magazine Woman's World which covered a plethora of issues providing updates on women's issues in the world, related to care of children, housekeeping, styles of fashion, physical games, musical forms, welfare activities and interviews with well known women. This magazine flourished even after her death, till 1957. She was represented on the Lyceum Club of Melbourne as a member.

Lydia "Nellé" Tritton was an Australian journalist, poet and "public elocutionist".

Jessie Urquhart was an Australian journalist, novelist and short-story writer.

Edith Alice Waterworth was an Australian welfare worker, columnist and women's rights activist from the 19th century. She fought to liberalise Tasmania for women and she often petitioned the government to implement these changes.

Lisa Wilkinson is an Australian television presenter and journalist.

Stella Jane Young was an Australian comedian, journalist and disability rights activist.