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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. Well the great one Eater Phillips,

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Speaker 1: who I love very much. She's such a good human,

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Speaker 1: a very classy woman. And now she's leaving the ABC.

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Speaker 1: She's been reading the seven o'clock News and the ABC

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Speaker 1: for over twenty years. Is she leaving because of family reasons? Well,

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Speaker 1: she's choosing her dismount, as she says, she's written this

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Speaker 1: fantastic thing on us. I've just cherry picked a couple

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Speaker 1: of bits from it. But she wrote a great piece

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Speaker 1: about how she feels about leaving and making her announcement

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Speaker 1: that she's going. She said, after twenty one years presenting

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Speaker 1: the seven o'clock News, I've decided to leave the ABC

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Speaker 1: and take a break for a while. It's my choice.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to start the next phase of my life.

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Speaker 1: My final bulletin will be September ten. It's been an

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Speaker 1: honor to serve the people of New South Wales in

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Speaker 1: this role and I'll be sorry to say goodbye to

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Speaker 1: our seven PM viewers. It's a privilege to have played

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Speaker 1: a small part in something so important in people's daily lives.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the warmth and support I've received over the

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Speaker 1: years It's been an extraordinary time in history to be

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Speaker 1: in the news. If I had to sum it up

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Speaker 1: some up the last twenty one years in five words,

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Speaker 1: they'd be terrorism, Trump, COVID, climate, and equality. These are

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Speaker 1: the chapter headings of the defining stories of our time.

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Speaker 1: I get to do the easy part, presenting that their

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Speaker 1: hard works, just doing about all the people who put

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Speaker 1: together the bulletins their hard work from the comfort of

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Speaker 1: a studio. Nonetheless, telling people bad scary news five nights

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Speaker 1: a week does leave its mark for starters. It's made

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Speaker 1: me very anxious mother. I know everything that can possibly

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Speaker 1: go wrong, from freak accidents to existential threats to humanity.

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Speaker 1: People often ask if reading the news upsets me. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: it does, especially those stories which reveal the worst of

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Speaker 1: human nature and the suffering it causes. These are the

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Speaker 1: stories I can't watch as they go to wear, and

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Speaker 1: my ability to tune them out is diminishing. It's one

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Speaker 1: of the parts of the job I'll be relieved to

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Speaker 1: walk away from. I'm proud to have survived this long.

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Speaker 1: TV news is a tough business for women once they

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Speaker 1: have children, especially as they age. I've seen too many

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Speaker 1: talented women discarded during my decades in the industry. I'm

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Speaker 1: acutely aware how fortunate and I am to be choosing

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Speaker 1: my time of my departure. What comes next. Honestly, I

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Speaker 1: have no idea. I do know this, I won't be

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Speaker 1: training for a marathon or studying for a PhD. I

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Speaker 1: solemnly promise not to start a podcast. Being more available

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Speaker 1: for friends and family is now my priority. I assumed

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Speaker 1: life would slow down as my kids grew up. Turns

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Speaker 1: out it's the opposite, jeez, and that the truth. We

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Speaker 1: gather people as we move through life, and by the

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Speaker 1: time we get to my age, it's quite a crowd.

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Speaker 1: There's something big going on all the time. Divorce, death,

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Speaker 1: troubled teens, ailing elders, health crises. It's breaking news on

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Speaker 1: the home front every day. After a bit of downtime,

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Speaker 1: who knows. I've worked my whole life and I feel

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Speaker 1: like I feel something I need, still have something to contribute,

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Speaker 1: she said, So keep the camera rolling. As a wise

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Speaker 1: friend said to me recently, sometimes women our age just

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Speaker 1: need a year off. I could relate to a lot

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Speaker 1: of this, she said. It's sad to leave, but as

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Speaker 1: I reached the end of this particular road, what I

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Speaker 1: mainly feel is profound gratitude and for the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: travel it. News is mostly bad, but this job has

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Speaker 1: taught me there is also beauty and goodness in the world,

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Speaker 1: kind people, wonders of nature, feats of bravery and sacrifice.

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Speaker 1: I've borne witness to that too. How lucky I've been beautiful.

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Speaker 1: That's just a small part of what she wrote, but

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Speaker 1: I can. I've often wondered how people read the news

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Speaker 1: and hold it together. Yeah, that'd be terrible. Imagine that.

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Speaker 1: You'd be like on the blood if so. Once you

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Speaker 1: become a mother, your heart, your skin is being peeled

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Speaker 1: off somehow, And as she said, it's made it's led

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Speaker 1: to some anxiety for her of how hard the world

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Speaker 1: can be, but how beautiful it can be. To it's

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Speaker 1: grown up news, the ABC, I always feel grown up,

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Speaker 1: but I'm watching it. Yeah, well she's she is such

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Speaker 1: a professional, humane, extraordinary woman to be delivering that bullet

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Speaker 1: and every night she'll be so misch. She's there till September.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I like that. And then I watched whacky news.

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Speaker 1: Wacky news, who does the wacking news? The project? Fair

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Speaker 1: enough news? You know you need to mix maybe by

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Speaker 1: the project. The project's good because it's got all the graphics.

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Speaker 1: Got really if you seen the project's graphics, really good.

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Speaker 1: And then and I like, those kids are like little

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Speaker 1: Scooby Doo kids solving crimes you know, in the news.

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Speaker 1: But do you say kids, they're probably the young. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well everyone's younger than yeah. Yeah. There's no place for

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Speaker 1: me on TV, the middle aged white man. There's no

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Speaker 1: no place anymore. I completely relate to Anita saying sometimes

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Speaker 1: when you've worked your whole life as a woman, you

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Speaker 1: just want a year off. You're not over to break.

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Speaker 1: There you go, I'll prove you right now. Do you

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Speaker 1: want to start? Now? Are you sending me home home?

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Speaker 1: I did wonder if people tuned in while I was

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Speaker 1: reading that, if they thought I was announcing my own statements. No,

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Speaker 1: it's this is why Anita, I'm still here.