Lucy Carter
Lucy Carter started at the ABC while still at university, working as an overnight reporter and guiding the Sydney newsroom through the wee sleepy hours of the morning.
Her big break came when a chicken shop exploded three streets away at 3am, and she was able to report live from the scene in monkey print pyjama pants and ugh boots.
After finishing her Broadcast Journalism degree in 2007 at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, she scored what she still thinks is one of the best jobs in the world – writing and reading the national news for triple j. Highlights have so far been telling the nation’s youth that Barack Obama was the new US President, and reporting the time that Victorian State MP Jason Wood repeatedly said ‘orgasms’ instead of ‘organisms’ in a late night speech to parliament.
As well as being a triple j newsreader, she occasionally contributes stories to ABC Radio Current Affairs programs AM, PM and The World Today.
She loves music festivals, horse riding and surfing, and has never come across a dad joke she didn’t love.
Articles by Lucy Carter
I saw myself plastered and it wasn’t pretty
I did something pretty unusual on Saturday night. Well, unusual for me. I had a quiet one. I declined various…... Read more
Mind your language if you’re making a parse* at me
[*Ed’s note to Gen Y: that isn’t a typo in the headline. It’s a cool joke, and Lucy explains it…... Read more
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The humourless hysteria of the holier-than-thou
In I Spit On Your Grave, a young woman is gang raped in a remote woodland. She is beaten and tortured…
Cash mobs aren’t so flash
For a moment in the mid-naughties, they were the coolest of all cool social media-fuelled meme-thingos.…
If we wanted reality, we’d turn off the television
“Some day, far into the future, this here machine will become a powerful medium with the potential…
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From: Punch on: Open thread 09/02/2012
marley says:
I'm one of the older ones, so I've certainly seen a few changes in my time. When I started school I learned to write with a nib pen, dipped in an inkwell (no, I'm not kidding). My mother became a dab hand at getting inkstains out of my clothes. Flicking ink at one another in the classroom was an essential… [read more]From: I’d rather have a piece of toast than listen to crap lyrics
Erick says:
Led Zeppelin are responsible for my all-time favourite mixed metaphor: "There you sit, sit and stare, like a book on a shelf rusting." (Misty Mountain Hop) I laugh every time I hear it. Hmmm, I believe I've decided what to play on the way to work today. [read more]Gentle jabs to the ribs
No wuckin forries. These nuckin futs are tuckin fops
Well, puck me with a fitchfork. The F-word is apparently an acceptable part of Australian speech. That’s… Read more
