Background
Devine is the daughter of veteran journalist, editor and conservative columnist Frank Devine.
Devine is the daughter of veteran journalist, editor and conservative columnist Frank Devine.
While living in Tokyo, Devine and her sisters attended an American International School and learned to speak Japanese fluently. A devout Roman Catholic like her father, she completed her high school education at Loreto Kirribilli, a Catholic girls" private school in Sydney. After school, she completed a mathematics degree at Macquarie University.
Her column, formerly printed twice weekly in Fairfax Media newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald, now appears in the News Limited newspapers Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Melbourne"s Sunday Herald Sun and Perth"s Sunday Times. She hosted The Miranda Devine Show, a weekly syndicated radio show on Sydney station 2GB. The show ended in 2015. She joined the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in their textile physics division, where she worked for four years.
She then completed a one-year graduate program at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University in Chicago.
On 6 August 2010, The Daily Telegraph announced that Devine would be returning as a columnist for both The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. She can read people which is why she accurately predicts election results".
When interviewed for an April 2007 article in The Australian about hate mail received by female columnists, Devine commented, "You are contesting ideas and you have to do it in a polarising way. When you write a column, you can"t sit on the fence".
In their book Silencing Dissent (Allen & Unwin), Clive Hamilton and Sarah Maddison accuse Devine of belonging to a "syndicate of right-wing commentators who receive favour from the Howard Government."
In 2007, Devine travelled to Afghanistan and Iraq with the Australian Defence Minister, Brendan Nelson and Australian Defence Force chief Angus Houston, where she interviewed United States General David Petraeus, Commander of the Multi-National Force.
In 2015, Devine sparked considerable controversy after claiming that "women abusing welfare" were the main cause of domestic violence. According to Devine, "If you want to break the cycle of violence, end the welfare incentive for unsuitable women to keep having children to a string of feckless men".
Devine is a strong critic of feminism.
She has also attacked the administrators of a rugby association for banning a player for homophobia, and defended the former Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
