Bernadette Nunn fell in love with words as soon as she learnt to read and she’s been writing ever since. She’s been a professional storyteller for more than 30 years in print and on television. She is an experienced on camera presenter, news reader, reporter, executive producer and film maker.

She studied journalism at RMIT and started in newspapers as a cadet at the Colac Herald before being convinced to finish her training in TV news at BTV6 in Ballarat.  She was quickly converted to the magic of pictures and sound, thriving on the adrenalin of live TV. She went on to become a senior reporter and news anchor at Channel 10 in Melbourne, covering everything from bushfires and crime to court and federal politics, interviewing all manner of people including Prime Ministers, celebrities, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama.

After more than a decade of daily news, Bernadette swapped deadlines for indefinite adventure, backpacking alone around Europe and Africa. She covered the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, learnt Swahili on the island of Zanzibar and saw in the Millenium beside Egypt’s pyramids. She travelled to rebel territory in northern Uganda for a story on the traditional process of extracting shea butter and was flown around Tanzania on private safari to write about the nation’s national parks including Jane Goodall’s famous chimpanzees at Gombe.  

After two years’ travelling, she came home and saturated herself in the diverse landscapes of Australia, travelling far and wide to produce and present stories for a national farming program, On the Land, while reporting and presenting radio news and current affairs for the ABC’s international broadcaster Radio Australia and reporting for SBS News.

She was recruited to the foundation team of ABC Asia Pacific TV, later renamed Australia Network, which broadcast to 46 countries across Asia and the Pacific. She read the news to the region and presented stories for the long running daily magazine program Nexus before moving behind the camera to start the ground breaking weekly program Pacific Pulse as Executive Producer. She went on to become Social Media Manager for ABC International where she oversaw exceptional audience growth across platforms from Facebook and YouTube to Sina Weibo.

In 13 years at the ABC, she made hundreds of hours of internationally broadcast television on subjects ranging from science to the arts, football to farming, from Cambodia to Samoa, KL to Kakadu, Uluru to Ningaloo, Fiji to the Daintree.

Throughout, Bernadette has been drawn to the untold story, the nuances ignored by the headlines and the human interest stories that are a much-needed antidote to the bad news dominating much of our media. Bernadette left her favourite Aunty in 2013 to pursue that passion and make her own “out of the ordinary” documentaries.