Kirsten Drysdale
Kirsten Drysdale is an Australian television presenter and journalist.
Drysdale was born and raised in Mackay, Queensland.
Before beginning her career at the ABC, Drysdale worked for a production company in Brisbane that produced documentaries and multimedia for museums and exhibitions. During this time, she was also pursuing a sporting career, playing hockey for the Queensland Scorchers. After suffering an injury, she successfully applied for a position in the ABC television comedy and current affairs programme, Project NEXT, which was later renamed Hungry Beast.
She was a researcher and presenter for Hungry Beast and a researcher for The Hamster Wheel, The Hamster Decides and The Gruen Transfer. She has also occasionally appeared on Radio National, where she hosted Talking Shop, a weekly series that delves deep into marketing spin and consumer psychology to find out why we buy what we buy - and how we can buy better, The series ended on August 5, 2014. Drysdale has also written for Crikey, The Feed and The Global Mail. She was a writer and one of the main presenters on the ABC consumer affairs comedy programme, The Checkout.
Drysale's memoir, I Built No Schools in Kenya: A Year of Unmitigated Madness, was published in January 2019 by Vintage Australia.
