Lisa Millar Net Worth 2024, Salary, Professional Career

Millar grew up in the small country town of Kilkivan in Queensland. Lisa began her journalism career in regional newspapers before transitioning to television. She joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in the early 1990s.

Lisa Millar's Net Worth

Lisa Millar has an estimated Net Worth of $3 Million as of 2024. His Primary source of earnings comes from her career as a Journalist. She works on various media projects.

Lisa Millar Career

Millar began her media career in newspapers, first as a cadet for The Gympie Times and later for Brisbane's afternoon tabloid newspaper, The Sun, which ended in late 1991. She then moved north to Townsville, where she worked for WIN TV, a regional television broadcaster, for a year before joining the ABC as its North Queensland correspondent, covering a large area from Torres Strait to the outback mining community of Mount Isa and down to the Whitsunday island chain. Millar later worked for the ABC at Canberra's Federal Press Gallery, notably during the 1996 Federal Election campaign.

Millar returned to Queensland and became ABC's state political reporter, analyzing the growth of Pauline Hanson and her One Nation party. She was chosen president of Brisbane's 30-person press gallery and co-anchored ABC's state election coverage in 1998 and 2001.

She also reported for ABC Radio in Queensland hosted the Queensland edition of Stateline, and provided frequent analysis on Queensland matters for 702 ABC Sydney.

Millar became the ABC's North American correspondent in Washington in 2001, returning to Australia in 2005. She was part of the team that received the 2005 Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism for their work on the story that led to the discovery of Vivian Solon in the Philippines. 

Millar returned to Washington in July 2009 to take over as ABC's North American Bureau Chief, where he stayed for six years. She was sent to ABC's Europe desk in London for several months in 2012, covering the Olympic Games and other important events before returning to the Washington bureau.

In April 2015, ABC announced that Millar would succeed Philip Williams as Bureau Chief of the ABC's London bureau in September. In October 2018, Millar returned to Australia to work as a traveling reporter/presenter for the ABC.

Millar became co-host of News Breakfast in December 2018, while Virginia Trioli was on long service leave. She filled in on the program until Trioli returned in March of 2019. Millar took over as co-host of News Breakfast permanently from Trioli in August 2019.

Millar apologized in June 2022 after viewers were offended by her statements during an exchange about racism in sports. While discussing Nick Kyrgios' charges that he was subjected to racial taunts at the Stuttgart Open, Millar appeared to imply that some people would argue that athletes like Kyrgios should be allowed to disregard taunts from fans.

Miller narrated the ABC reality TV show Muster Dogs in 2022 and 2024. Millar revealed in July 2024 that she will be leaving News Breakfast to focus on fresh efforts at ABC. Her last event will be on August 23.