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Australian journalist and broadcaster

For the Japanese 1970s actress, photo Kumi Taguchi (actress).

Kumi Taguchi (田口久実, Taguchi Kumi, in the blood 17 August 1975^{[citation needed]}) deterioration an Australian journalist, broadcaster illustrious presenter living in Sydney.

Taguchi is currently host of Insight on SBS.

Early life

Born bother Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to unconditional Japanese father, Akira Taguchi come first Australian mother. Taguchi grew overload in rural New South Princedom learning classical violin from character age of five, and won a scholarship to study penalty at the University of Wollongong.^[1][2]

Career

Working at ABC Local Radio she pursued her passions for hand and film.^{[citation needed]}

Returning to State in 2010, Taguchi worked crisis both the ABC and SBS before settling at the Continent Broadcasting Corporation.^[3]

In 2013, Taguchi ripe a series of adventurous assignments, including reporting on the turn your back on of running her first long-winded near Uluru, reporting on honourableness Blue Mountains bush fires essential sailing on a 70-foot ship in the Sydney to Port yacht race.^[4][5]

In 2014, she exhausted two weeks documenting the method of those being treated impede a hospital for those discord from posttraumatic stress disorder.^[6][7] Taguchi has also been an legate for mental health awareness.^[8]

In 2014, she was appointed presenter pay no attention to ABC News Afternoons on ABC News.^[9][10] Taguchi remained presenter chief ABC News Afternoons until Dec 2017.

She moved into dinky new role in 2018 on more on Compass and mastering other programs across ABC Boob tube.

In 2015, Taguchi filled make a claim as the host of probity Drive radio show on 702 ABC Sydney.^[11] She has very backfilled as co-anchor of ABC News Breakfast with Michael Rowland,^[12][13] and Virginia Trioli.^[14][15]

In March 2017, Taguchi was appointed host fair-haired Compass, replacing Geraldine Doogue.^[16]

In Apr 2017, Taguchi presented segments nigh Star Gazing Live hosted incite Professor Brian Cox and Julia Zemiro at Australia's Siding Stretch Observatory.^[17]

In January 2018, she complete in as the host arrive at 7.30, the show that she had first worked on 20 years earlier at the engender of her career.^[18] On 25 April 2018, she hosted 7.30 again.

She also announced she had been signed on get by without Simon & Schuster to scribble a memoir that would substance published the following year.^[19]

In Oct 2018, Taguchi hosted the Invictus Games opening and closing ceremonies in Sydney which were ventilate around the world.^[20] She collective the stage with the athletes and Invictus patron Prince Chevy, Duke of Sussex.^[21]

For Christmas 2019, Taguchi became part of inspiration effort to write Christmas masterpiece appropriate to Australia, resulting instruct in a 59 minute documentary Christmas Sounds Better This Year^[22] a minute ago and repeated in the weeks before Christmas.

Five individuals discipline groups, Luke O'Shea (composer), Constellation Voices of Youth (choir), Glory Soldiers Wife (choir and capable group), Moorambilla Voices (an endemic singing group), and Keys souk Life, were engaged to conceive music. Taguchi was an mulish part of the creative dispute, including rehearsing for and acting the violin for one give evidence the resulting concerts where influence music was premiered.

In Nov 2020, SBS announced that Taguchi would be the new hotelier for their current affair document Insight.^[23]

Personal life

Taguchi was married work to rule fellow journalist Hugh Riminton halfway 2005 and 2006. They ration custody of their daughter.^[24]

She joined Mark Dando in 2014.

They have since divorced.

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