Kimberley Price
Kimberley Price is an audio current affairs journalist at the ABC whose work tracks how national policy shifts play out in everyday life. She moves between clean energy, transport, wildlife disease and digital safety, focusing on the way national decisions reach households, communities and the natural world. Her stories are told through radio packages for flagship news programs, using clear scripting, interviews and data to connect complex change to lived experience.
Clean energy transition and everyday transport
Price’s environment coverage centres on the lived realities of the clean energy transition, especially around transport and fuel. In recent reporting on rising fuel prices and the end of the federal fuel excise cut, she follows individual drivers weighing the cost of petrol against the benefits of electric and hybrid vehicles.
She uses case studies and national sales figures to show how higher prices at the bowser are pushing record numbers of Australians towards electric vehicles, framing the transition as a consumer and infrastructure story rather than an abstract climate debate. In her work on attitudes to the clean energy transition, she extends this approach to public sentiment, examining whether support for renewable energy and related policy has stalled and what that means for future change.
Her energy pieces sit squarely in audio news formats, with tight scripting around government decisions, motoring data and household budgets.
Wildlife disease, biosecurity and public health
Price reports extensively on the spread of bird flu and its consequences for wildlife, agriculture and national preparedness. In coverage of a mass mortality event involving dead and sick birds in South Australia, she explains how the incident marks a turning point in the outbreak, showing the virus moving into wildlife populations and making significant losses unavoidable. She tracks confirmed cases of the H5 strain across multiple states and details the activation of the National Management Plan, including additional federal funding to manage the threat. Her bird flu stories combine ecological impact, government response and practical guidance, outlining what authorities are asking the public to do if they encounter sick or deceased animals.
This strand of her work treats biosecurity as both an environmental and public health issue, with careful attention to numbers, policy mechanisms and expert commentary.
Online safety, social media regulation and harm prevention
Another defining thread in Price’s reporting is the regulation of online spaces and the prevention of digital harms. In a piece on Spain’s plan to ban social media use for people under 16, she situates the move alongside Australia’s own push to restrict access for teenagers and tighten controls on algorithms that amplify unlawful content and hate speech. Her reporting sets out the government’s message in direct terms, describing the planned ban and the broader push to rein in social media platforms.
She also covers sextortion targeting young men, explaining how offenders coerce victims into sending explicit images and then threaten to expose them unless they pay. Those stories rely on data from the national online safety authority, plain definitions of the crime, and expert advice that urges victims not to send money, to preserve evidence and to report abuse to platforms and police.
Across these pieces she treats online safety as a systemic issue, linking individual cases to regulatory changes and enforcement challenges.
Broader social, cultural and accountability reporting
Price’s broader body of work shows a journalist comfortable moving across social history, law reform, child protection, sport and culture while maintaining a focus on accountability and personal stories. As a producer on the ABC’s breakfast programming, she has curated segments on thousands of digitised letters from First World War soldiers, using archival material to explore how personal correspondence reshapes public understanding of conflict. She has commissioned and produced interviews on the scale of child sexual abuse in religious settings and on a stage work that contributed to court reform in the United Kingdom, highlighting the human impact behind institutional change.
Her cultural pieces include long-form conversations with musicians on career highs and nostalgic new releases, and with a former elite athlete reflecting on the “good, the bad, the ugly” of a sporting life as captured in memoir. In sport and health she has reported on calls for an inquiry into a football club’s secret concussion contract, bringing together player welfare, legal scrutiny and organisational responsibility.
Across these assignments she works within the ABC’s audio news and current affairs division, shaping interviews and reports that keep complex topics accessible and grounded in individual experience.
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