Lynne Haultain

Lynne Haultain began her radio career at the ABC as a broadcast officer in Perth. She transferred to Hobart in 1990 and presented Nights and Drive. She then moved to Melbourne in 1992 to present the national overnight program Beyond Midnight. Nearly three years later Lynne took a role as senior reporter and presenter for ABC Rural on Countrywide for Radio National. In 1997 she presented the Law Report on Radio National. Lynne moved to local radio presenting the regional drive program for Victoria before moving to 774 ABC Melbourne. She hosted the breakfast program for more than 4 years. While she was on maternity leave she was temporarily replaced by Red Symons[1] who remained on the shift. Haultain then presented the afternoon program for two years before leaving 774 ABC Melbourne on 15 December 2004.

Lynne has gone on to a career with communications consultants CPR, then as inaugural General Manager of Strategic Communications at the ACCC and the City Of Melbourne.

She is Chair of the Board of Management at the Victorian Foundation for the Survivors of Torture, and a commissioner with the Victorian Law Reform Commission.

She is married to ABC Grandstand Digital presenter Francis Leach. For a while she and her husband worked in the same timeslot on their respective stations, when Lynne presented Afternoons and Francis was at SEN.[2]

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