ABC appoints Isabella Higgins as AM presenter

Isabella Higgins is the new presenter of ABC Radio National current affairs program AM, replacing Sabra Lane, who left in late December after nine years hosting the show.

Higgins joined the ABC in 2014, and won a Walkley for her reporting on suicide rates in Indigenous communities. She was the ABC’s European correspondent for three years — covering the pandemic, the Russian-Ukraine war, and the death of Queen Elizabeth II from a London base — and has spent the past year as the ABC’s national social affairs reporter.

Higgins said in a media release: “It’s an absolute privilege to take on this role at AM, a program with such a strong legacy and loyal audience.