About Us
Giving you the most comprehensive coverage and analysis of national and international events - serious, fun, topical and diverse without being overwhelming.
There's AM at 7.10 and ABC News throughout the show, as well as reports from the BBC World Service and CNN.
Regular guests include Warwick Hadfield on sport and Michelle Grattan on politics. Adrian Thirsk brings us finance news and James Carleton fills us in on the newspaper headlines.
On Fridays we're joined by Chris Smith reporting from our Cambridge studios on science.
Our team includes business editor Sheryle Bagwell, international editor Michel Panayotov, and executive producer Tim Latham.
Be part of the national conversation on Radio National Breakfast.
Our regular presenter, Fran Kelly, has been seconded to ABC TV looking at the Howard years, and will return to August.
Mark Bannerman
Mark Bannerman is a journalist with thirty years experience in radio and television reporting and production.
Mark was in Moscow for the ABC during the first coup in 1991 mounted against Mikhail Gorbachev and he was in Washington reporting on the Lewinsky scandal that shook the Clinton administration in 1998.
He began his career in ABC Radio Current Affairs in 1978. Later he reported and presented programs for Radio National, Local Radio and the ABC's radio documentary department.
In the mid eighties he returned to Radio Current Affairs covering the Milperra Massacre and the Chamberlain Inquiry in Darwin working as a senior reporter and producer of AM, PM and The World Today.
In 1986 Mark became an advisor to Senator John Button and then worked in the Parliament House Press Gallery for Network 10 and ABC Lateline.
Since then he's devoted most of his time to television at the ABC, including two stints as a foreign correspondent. While doing that he's reported for virtually all the ABC's major news and current affairs programs including Lateline, The 7.30 Report, Foreign Correspondent and Four Corners.
These days home is The 7.30 Report with an occasional stint working in radio that he says is a medium that never loses its charm and power.
Mark's interests include surfing, sailing, watching and playing sport, reading, listening to and playing music (badly) and spending time with his family.
