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Wendy Harmer

Wendy Harmer co-presents the breakfast show with Robbie Buck on ABC Radio Sydney

January 2024

  • For the series Tale you dine out on.Wendy Harmer. Australia

    The tale I dine out on
    Wendy Harmer: ‘I ran away from the Oscars as fast as I possibly could and fled into the night’

    A moth-eaten dress, a home-cut fringe and a mishap with a maternity bra – author and broadcaster Wendy Harmer’s trip to the Oscars began and ended in tears

April 2022

  • A $25 million concrete seawall designed to stop coastal erosion being built from Collaroy, to South Narrabeen on Sydneys Northern Beaches. NSW, Australia.

    As Australia battles wild weather and coastal erosion, we should learn from our mistakes

    Wendy Harmer
    Not only is it arguably the ugliest edifice built on the coast, Collaroy’s seawall may protect private property in the short-term, but it will destroy the beach

November 2019

  • Rainbow lorikeets

    Kevin Rudd, Thomas Keneally, Wendy Harmer, Tim Winton and others on their birds of the year

    From the punks of the bird world and a living fossil to a rabbit-killing raptor, Australia’s birds have attitude

January 2019

  • Waves crash against a swimming pool that was washed away from a home on the Collaroy beachfront after heavy storms battered Sydney’s beaches in June 2016.

    Australia's best beaches
    Holding back the tides: Sydney's battle against coastal erosion

    As Australian beaches succumb to destructive coastal surges due to climate change, Wendy Harmer considers the price of inaction at storm-battered Collaroy-Narrabeen

June 2013

  • Michael Christian and Mel Greig

    Guardian Comment Network
    An award for Michael Christian, the royal prank DJ? What a disgrace

    Wendy Harmer for The Hoopla

    Wendy Harmer for The Hoopla: One of the two radio presenters at the centre of the royal hoax tragedy has won a national competition. This is corporate cowboy thinking