Deborah Knight Biography
Deborah Knight is an Australian journalist, news and TV presenter. She is the co-host of the Nine Network’s breakfast program ‘Today’ alongside Georgie Gardner.
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Knight was born on 23rd November 1972, in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales. She is 46 years old as of 2018.
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No information on her parents is disclosed to the public.
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She is married to Linsay Dunbar.
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She has two children with Lindsay; Elsa and Darcy.
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Deborah Knight Education Background
She was educated at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, New Wales. There, she graduated with a degree in journalism in 1993.
Deborah Knight Career
Knight debuted her career in the media by working for 2WG (the radio station) in Wagga Wagga. She moved to Mix 106.5 in Sydney before joining ABC.
She was replaced by Sandra Sully as the presenter of Network Ten’s Ten News at Five in Sydney in 2005.
She began hosting a podcast in 2018. It is titled ‘Honey Mums for mums by mums. She is joined by psychologist Sandy rea and 9Honey’s Jo Abi.
Early 2019, she replaced Karl Stefanovic on ‘Today’ as the co-host.
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She earns a salary of $500,000.
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Barnaby Joyce hijacks interview with Today host Deborah Knight
Published: March 13, 2019
Source: https://www.news.com.au
Today host Deb Knight was in the middle of grilling a guest this morning when he turned the tables on her, flipping the segment on its head.
Barnaby Joyce hijacked an interview on Channel 9’s Today show this morning, turning the tables on host Deborah Knight.
Knight was in the middle of grilling Mr Joyce about his leadership ambitions, and his push for the government to subsidise a new coal-fired power station in Queensland, when he reversed their roles and started asking the questions himself.
Mr Joyce said coal was Australia’s biggest export and anti-coal policies would wreak havoc in the economy.
“If you go into this election and shut down your major export, your major income earner for the nation — and I’ll tell you why that’s important. Deb, they’re lovely shoes, where are they from?” Mr Joyce asked.
“Wouldn’t have a clue,” Knight said.
“Overseas. How about the dress? Where’d that come from?” he pressed.
“Wouldn’t have a clue either,” she admitted.
“How about the jewellery?”
“Ditto.”
“What car have you got, Deb?”
“It’s an overseas car.”
“Overseas petrol in it? And you cook on an overseas stove?”
“Yep.”
“And you get your food out of an overseas fridge. Who’s putting something on the boat and sending it in the other direction so you can have that standard of living?”
Knight took the surprise interrogation in stride and went on to wish Mr. Joyce and his partner Vikki Campion well. The pair are expecting their second child.
Earlier in the interview, Knight was very much in control. She asked Mr Joyce about yesterday’s scathing attack from New South Wales Deputy Premier John Barilaro, who told Mr Joyce to pipe down.
“We just want him to shut up. We just want him to be quiet,” Mr Barilaro said.
He claimed Mr Joyce’s public comments, and his federal colleagues’ “navel-gazing”, were hurting the Nationals’ chances in the upcoming NSW election.
“Will you take John Barilaro’s advice? Will you stop the navel-gazing?” Knight asked.
“I didn’t break in here today. I imagine I was invited. Because you are invited, that means they want you to say something, otherwise I would be sitting on the chair mute. I don’t think that’s good for ratings or anything,” Mr Joyce said.
“I have no intention whatsoever — I don’t know how many times I have to say this — to do anything but make sure that Michael McCormack is the deputy prime minister.”
Mr Joyce has repeatedly insisted he is not trying to undermine Mr McCormack. At the same time, he has openly said he will put his name forward if there is a spill.
“Hand on heart, do you want the job as National Party leader?” Knight asked him.
“We are going to go to this election with Michael McCormack and with Scott Morrison, and I hope we do everything we can to get them federally elected,” Mr Joyce replied.
“Because otherwise you’re going to get the Greens, the Labor Party and the independents. You think you’ve got job insecurity? You wait until they close down the major export of our nation.”
Mr Joyce admitted it might have been a “misstep” to call himself the elected deputy prime minister earlier this week.
“You’ve muddied the waters to the extent that you’ve said you are the elected deputy prime minister,” Knight said.
“And after the election I’m hoping that Michael McCormack is federally elected and also Scott Morrison is federally elected. Maybe it was a misstep on my part,” Mr Joyce said.
“But you said you’d throw your hat in the ring if a spill was called,” Knight said.
“I’ve always said that. You’re stating the bleeding obvious. I mean, if any party has nobody in the leadership position by reason of a spill then lots of people with throw their hats in the ring. It’s a statement of the bleeding obvious,” Mr Joyce replied.
The idea of using taxpayer money to support a new coal-fired power station has split the Nationals despite deputy leader Bridget McKenzie’s insistence that “what Barnaby Joyce is saying publicly is very different to what the party room is saying”.
This morning cabinet minister Matt Canavan joined six MPs from Queensland in publicly backing Mr Joyce’s position.
“There is a clear need for additional power in north Queensland. Multiple studies have shown that, and those studies come back always saying that HELE (high efficiency low emission coal) or a new coal-fired power station would make a lot of sense,” Mr Canavan told ABC radio.
“Bridget McKenzie says that’s not what’s being discussed in the party room,” Knight put to Mr Joyce on Today.
“Oh, we are discussing the cost of living. We are discussing making sure that people who are under the pump, we’re going to make sure that we respect them as much as any other person in Australia, and we go into bat for our constituents,” Mr Joyce said.
“She also said that voters, Australians generally, are frustrated by you because she says you’re not focused on their needs and issues,” Knight said.
“Look, I know how politics works. And the political pile-on is always part of it,” he said.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison was not exactly enthusiastic about the prospect of subsidising a new coal-fired plant when he was asked about it on Monday.
He said the Queensland State Government would never approve such a project.
“I tend to work in the area of the practical. The things that actually can happen. And what actually can happen is the investments that we are making in renewable projects and reliable projects,” Mr Morrison said.
Knight asked Mr Joyce whether Mr McCormack was lobbying Mr Morrison hard enough on the issue.
“If a government-funded coal-fired power plant is this key issue, particularly in Queensland, do you think Michael McCormack is doing enough? Is he pushing as hard as he should be against the Prime Minister, who said no?” she said.
“I’m sure he is because that’s policy of the National Party,” Mr Joyce responded.