Career
Riminton currently co-hosts Ten Eyewitness News for the New South Wales bulletin in Sydney. Hugh Riminton joined the Australian Nine Network as a Melbourne-based general reporter in 1989. He became its London-based correspondent in 1991.
Riminton has reported from more than 40 countries, notably South Africa, Uganda, South Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda, the Middle East, Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, South East Asia, East Timor, China, the United States and the Pacific Islands.
He was also a Walkley Awards finalist for reportage in Papua New Guinea (1998), Kosovo (1999), Southern Sudan (1999) and Iraq (2003). In 2001, he was appointed full-time presenter of the Nine Network"s national evening news program Nightline, where he remained until joining Cable News Network in December 2004.
From Sri Lanka, he reported and presented during Cable News Network"s Alfred Dupont Award-winning coverage of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. He also reported extensively from Iraq, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and elsewhere during this time.
A son, Jacob, was born in Canberra in June 2009.
From January 2005 until September 2008, he co-anchored Cable News Network Today with Kristie Lu Stout out of Hong Kong. He is also an occasional guest presenter on the Network Ten"s prime time alternative news programmeThe Project. In November 2010, Riminton was appointed as Ten News Political Editor and Bureau Chief in Canberra with Paul Bongiorno becoming National Affairs editors
He was awarded a Walkley Award in 2011 for his work, with reporter Matt Moran, in breaking the "Skype Scandal" in the Australian Defence Force, prompting more than half a dozen police and government inquiries.
That year the pair received awards from the United Nations Association and the Australian Human Rights Commission for their work. They were shortlisted for the Graham Perkin Award for Australian Journalist/s of the Year.
In 2013, Riminton hosted current affairs program Revealed on Network Ten. Since February 2014, Network Ten Riminton has anchored Ten Eyewitness News in Sydney with Sandra Sully.
