Karen Middleton (journalist)

Karen Middleton is a political journalist in the Canberra Press Gallery covering the Parliament of Australia in Canberra, the national capital of Australia.

Work

Middleton is Chief Political Correspondent & Canberra Bureau Chief for SBS Television.

She is a seasoned radio and TV commentator, with a weekly radio spot on James O'Loghlin's Evening Show on ABC Radio across New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, and on Perth radio 6PR, Sydney radio 2GB and ABC Radio National, and TV appearances on Sunrise on the Seven Network, Meet the Press on the Ten Network, and ABC TV's Insiders.

She has been political correspondent for several newspapers, most recently The West Australian, but also the Melbourne Age and Herald-Sun, and the Canberra Times, and is an occasional contributor to the New York Times.

Middleton grew up in Canberra, where her father served as a senior bureaucrat with the Government.

She has been a regular volunteer of her time and talent to assist refugee families relocate to Australia.

She has been a life-long friend of leading Australian social activist Lin Hatfield Dodds.

Karen Middleton is not directly related to Jim Middleton, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Political Correspondent at Parliament House in Canberra.

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