Jeremy Fernandez
Jeremy Fernandez is an Australian journalist and television news presenter with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Career. Fernandez joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2000 working as a producer for ABC Local Radio. He has presented programs on Australia Network and has worked as a voice-over artist for Seven Network. He has worked with CNN International in London, UK as a writer and a producer before joining ABC again in 2009, where he continues to work at the network's Sydney bureau. In December 2012, Fernandez replaced Felicity Davey as "ABC News NSW" weekend presenter. In early  2017, Jeremy hosted "Lateline" while regular hosts, Tony Jones and Emma Alberici were on leave. In December 2017, ABC announced that Fernandez will present ABC's new late night bulletin, "ABC Late News". In May 2018, the ABC flew Fernandez and Annabel Crabb to London to host coverage of the Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. In August 2021, Jeremy guest hosted "Media Watch" after Paul Barry was injured from a bicycle accident. Personal life. He was born in Malaysia and grew up there before his family migrated to Australia when he was 13. His father is an Associate  Professor in journalism at Curtin University in Perth. Racial abuse incident, February 2013. In February 2013, Fernandez was racially abused by a female fellow passenger on a Sydney bus for about 15 minutes, while taking his two-year-old daughter to child care. One other passenger intervened, but was also the recipient of remarks by the abuser. Fernandez says that the woman's daughter had been physically abusing his daughter. Fernandez says that, after the woman and her children left the bus, other passengers offered him their names and contact details as witnesses to the incident. Fernandez later talked to  the bus driver, who said he should have moved. Fernandez has described this incident as his "Rosa Parks moment".