Hung Riminton Bio, Age, Height, Family, Husband, 10 News First

Hung Riminton Biography

Hugh Riminton is a a media personality serving as a journalist, foreign correspondent, and television news presenter from Australia working as the national affairs editor of 10 News First and an occasional presenter. Until February 2017, he co-anchored Ten Eyewitness News with Sandra Sully.

Hung Riminton Age

He is 62 years old as of 2024. He was born in 1961 in Sri Lanka.

Hung Riminton Height

Riminton is 5 feet 7 inches tall.

Hung Riminton Nationality

He holds Australian nationality.

Hung Riminton Education

Riminton earned a master’s degree in international relations from Macquarie University, with a major thesis on peacekeeping policy.

Hung Riminton Family

Riminton moved to New Zealand with his father, who managed tea estates when he was five years old. However, much is not disclosed concerning his parents and siblings’ identities.

Hung Riminton Wife and Kids

He has been married thrice. From the 1980s to the 1990s, He was married to Sue Perry, with whom he had a daughter in 1992 in London. He was in a relationship with Natasha Stott Despoja, a leader of the Australian Democrats, until 2001. When Riminton and Stott Despoja were both on the same panel for The Project’s coverage of the 2013 federal election, it was an unusual reunion. He moved to Hong Kong with Kumi Taguchi in 2004, and they were married from 2005 to 2006. In November of 2005, their daughter was born.

Riminton met journalist Mary Lloyd in early 2007 while working at CNN, he was a single father. The family relocated to Canberra, Australia, in 2009, where their son was born. In 2010, the couple married in Cambodia. The family relocated to Canberra, Australia, in 2009, where their son was born. In 2010, the couple married in Cambodia. In 2011, their daughter was born.

Hung Riminton 10 News First

Riminton joined the Australian Nine Network as a general reporter in Melbourne. In 1991, he was appointed as its London correspondent. Riminton has reported from more than 40 countries.

He was also a finalist for the Walkley Awards for reporting in Papua New Guinea in 1998, Kosovo in1999, Southern Sudan in 1999, and Iraq in 2001. He joined the Nine Network’s national evening news program Nightline as a full-time presenter in 2001 and remained there until joining CNN in December 2004.

He reported and presented from Sri Lanka during CNN’s Alfred Dupont Award-winning coverage of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, which he won. During this time, he also reported extensively from Iraq, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and other places. Coco, his second daughter, was born in Hong Kong. Jacob, a son, was born in June 2009 in Canberra.

In 2011, he was awarded a second Walkley Award for his role in breaking the “Skype Scandal” in the Australian Defense Force, which resulted in more than a half-dozen police and government inquiries. For their efforts, the United Nations Association and the Australian Human Rights Commission presented them with awards that year.