Indira Naidoo

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Indira Naidoo is an Australian television presenter and celebrity speaker. Naidoo was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, of Tamil descent. She was educated in Zimbabwe and Tasmania before matriculating from Naracoorte High School in South Australia. Naidoo enrolled in an Arts degree at the University of Adelaide in 1986, but dropped out before completing a journalism degree at the University of South Australia and joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Adelaide. She went on to anchor ABC News in Adelaide on the weekend in 1995. She then moved to the ABC's National Late Edition News. She currently presents the ABC's Talkback program.

Indira Naidoo won the South Australian Justice Administration Award for Television in 1993, the Dalgety Award for Excellence in Rural Journalism in 1994 and the Better Hearing Australia (NSW Branch) Clear Speech Award in 1996.

Naidoo has developed a cult following from her less serious appearances on Club Buggery, and later on The McFeast Show, Good News Week, The Glass House and The Fat. She regularly appears on Steve Abbott's variety series, In Siberia Tonight. In September 2006 she appeared on Tony Martin's Get This radio show on Triple M.