Career
She has been a journalist for over 25 years in television, radio and newspapers in Australia and overseas covering politics, national security and social justice issues and has worked on a variety of ABC programs including the investigative flagship program, Four Corners. She has also written a book called Blind Conscience (UNSW Press 2008) telling the stories of some of the key players in Australia's refugee advocacy movement. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Politics) degree from Melbourne University.
During her Melbourne University years, she was the lead singer in The Schnorts and The Jetsonnes with Ormond College students, then disbanded in September 1980 when she decided to pursue journalism full-time. Margot O’Neill is one of five children who all grew up in Gippsland. O’Neill is a senior journalist who has been with ABC TV’s Lateline.
She started out as a journalist for radio 3RRR political program Talking Headlines and then journalist for the National Times newspaper. Then moved to The Age newspaper covering Australian politics in Canberra. She also covered US politics in Washington and worked at Four Corners before joining Lateline.
Her work has been nominated for a Logie (Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report) three times.
