Megan Norris
Megan Norris is a UK trained journalist who has gained many exclusive stories for both magazines and TV in some of the biggest crime exclusives over the past 20 years including the Port Arthur shootings, the Bali bombings, the Beaconsfield Mining Disaster, the Body in the Boot murder, and exclusive interviews with Cindy Gambino, the wife of Robert Farquharson. She is also the co author of best selling Penguin Book Perfect Victim made into a movie starring Sam Neill, Miranda Otto, Guy Pearce and Rebecca Gibney.
She is one of four Australian journalists who have spoken out against the gag on media as part of a media campaign currently speaking out against the Family Court whose rulings often deny children a voice in the legal system. She is currently working on other books and her special interest is now in mothers whose ex-husbands murder their children in custody wrangles as the ultimate act of violence against a woman. She continues to write crime for the women'smagazinemarket whose target audience is women, many affected by family violence.
Kathy Bedford
Kathy Bedford fronts the team presenting ABC Victoria's Statewide Drive Program. With newsbreaking radio and innovative programming Kathy explores the richness, diversity and culture of regional living.
Living in regional Victoria for most of her life, and a former qualified nurse and stage and television actor, Kathy began her radio career as morning presenter on 3BA Ballarat, where she won four radio industry awards (Rawards). Kathy spent the next few years working at 3AW in both production and on-air roles including the Sunday morning current affairs program and then presenting the breakfast show on 3AK.
Luckily for her husband and two young sons she now works five minutes from home and enjoys long distance running, reading, gardening, theatre and sleeping in her spare time.
