Avoiding scams & decrypting financial news (with ABC journalist Pat Wright)
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Kate, welcome to this episode of the Australian Finance Podcast. Good to be back, Owen. We have a very special guest with us today, Pat Wright from the ABC. Pat, how are you doing? Really good. How are you guys going? Very good, mate. Very good. Yeah, we're stoked to have you in recording with us. We're here in Melbourne at our usual haunt, which is Flinders Lane. Mm-hmm. And today we're talking about deciphering the financial news and who better to be our field guide than yourself. We've got a heap of questions here about how we can make better decisions in terms of getting information into our consciousness, how we make decisions based on that information, how we verify it, etc., Let's start with a bit about you.
Tell us a bit about yourself, what you do day to day and why you do it.
Yeah, sure. Well, first of all, thanks for having me, guys. Pleasure to be here. I'm a big fan. So I guess a bit about me. So I'm living in Geelong now. I spend a lot of time living in Melbourne. And I've been a journalist for about nine years now. So I started with the ABC in 2012. And that was towards the end of my, just was in the third year of my uni course, journalism. And I was doing an internship at the ABC. And luckily enough, there was some casual work going and I got a casual job there. And that was just in the kind of national newsrooms, doing a lot of national, international news. And since then, I've had a few different jobs. I worked in Brisbane for a few years, then I moved down to Melbourne.
I was working in international news for a little bit, and I was doing some kind of state-based reporting and producing for online news at the ABC. And Most recently, I've been working at ABC every day. And so we're really aiming at talking about lifestyle topics to an audience under 45. So we do stuff about personal finances, about careers. We also do things about food, travel, and things like that. And it's a really interesting job because I guess I get to do a lot of different types of stories. I do a lot about money, but that's not the only kind of thing I get to do, which is good.
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