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Award winning journalist Kay McGrath co-presents Seven News in Brisbane with Rod Young. A popular identity in Brisbane, Kay is well known and respected by Queensland viewers as a very experienced, authoritative and sincere news presenter.
Before joining the Seven News team in Brisbane in 1989, Kay co-hosted the Seven Network's national morning business and finance program TVAM from Sydney.
Prior to joining the Seven Network, Kay was co-presenter of the nightly news bulletin at Network Ten(then TVO).
Kay was a regular on-the-road reporter and earned her reputation as an investigative journalist for her reports on the initial stages of the Fitzgerald Inquiry, the Telecom corruption tapes and the Brisbane airport hijacking, for which she shared a Logie Award. She also worked in newspapers and radio, both here in Australia and in New Zealand.
During her time with Seven News, Kay has reported for and co-hosted a series of documentaries on local social issues, including the acclaimed special Behind Closed Doors: Child Abuse in Queensland.
Off camera, Kay is committed to a number of community issues. A campaigner against child abuse, she is Patron of the organisation, Protect All Children Today (PACT), and an Ambassador for The Abused Child Trust.
For a number of years Kay also chaired the Committee that organises Child Protection Week activities in Queensland during September. Kay also has a genuine commitment to the fight against breast cancer and is Vice Patron of the Breast Cancer Association of Queensland.
Kay has two sons, Nicholas and Joseph.
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