Avani Dias

Avani Dias (born 15 November 1991) is a Sri Lankan Australian journalist and radio presenter. She is currently posted as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)'s international foreign correspondent for South Asia, based in New Delhi. Dias is perhaps best known for being the presenter of current affairs program Hack on youth radio station Triple J from 2020 to 2021, after succeeding Tom Tilley at the end of 2019.

Avani Dias
Born (1991-11-15) 15 November 1991
Wattle Grove, New South Wales, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • radio presenter
Years active2015–present
Known forHosting Hack on Triple J

Raised in South Western Sydney, Dias completed her tertiary education at the University of Sydney, where she wrote for the student newspaper Honi Soit. In her early career, she worked at independent radio station FBi Radio and the online newspaper The New Daily whilst also working as a production assistant at the ABC. Dias received a cadetship at ABC News in 2015, becoming a video-journalist and later anchoring the Darwin 7PM News bulletin.

Dias has won and been nominated for various journalistic awards, including Public Interest Award at the New South Wales Premier's Multicultural Communications Awards in 2019.

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