Joe Hildebrand Biography
Joe Hildebrand is an Australian journalist and columnist for The Daily Telegraph, Sydney’s biggest newspaper. He is also a regular commentator on the ABC (Q&A, The Drum), Seven Network (Sunrise, The Morning Show), Network Ten (The Project), Sky News (PM Live) and a host of radio stations, including 2GB, 4BC and ABC. In addition, he is the author of the memoir An Average Joe: My Horribly Abnormal Life.
Joe Hildebrand Age
Hildebrand is 47 years old as of 2023. He was born on June 23, 1976, in Melbourne, Australia.
Joe Hildebrand Height
He stands at an average height of 6 feet tall (1.83 m).
Joe Hildebrand Nationality
He is of Australian nationality.
Joe Hildebrand Education
Hildebrand attended Dandenong Primary School and later Dandenong High School. He then joined the University of Melbourne, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in history and English. He edited the student newspaper, Farrago while at the university.
Joe Hildebrand Parents
Joe was born into a Jewish family in Melbourne and grew up in Dandenong in outer Melbourne. He comes from a long line of losers, as he puts it. His mother was the child of bog-poor Irish Catholics. She went to Frankston Teachers’ College and upon graduation inexplicably went to Laos where she married Joe’s twice-divorced, folk-singing, hippy father from Colorado.
They returned to Dandenong where Joe’s dad eventually left his mum with three children, including Paddy, who suffered from a rare form of epilepsy.
When Joe was ten years old, his younger brother Paddy went missing on a family bushwalk at Wilson’s Promontory in 1987. Paddy, who was autistic, was not found despite an extensive search and rescue operation and to this day what became of him remains a mystery.
Joe waited a long time to speak about losing his sibling Paddy, who vanished while the pair bushwalked with his mother and cousins in Victoria’s Wilson’s Promontory in 1987.
“It was difficult to write,” Joe told the mag, “but I had been waiting a long time to write it. I also knew it would be the most important thing I’d ever write.”
“In a single tick of the clock, we were all broken. Our whole lives became instantly forlorn.”
Joe also spoke of how he was left “crying uncontrollably” when his father casually explained he was leaving the family while playing a game of Lego.
His mother told the Weekly: “It was a surgical cut for Joe and consequently has barely spoken to his father in the 30 years since.”
Joe Hildebrand Wife
Joe is married to Tara Ravens, a journalist. The couple got married in 2013 and have three children, a son named Henry who was born in 2013, and two daughters one of which is called Bonnie Rose, born on March 8, 2017, at 3.8kg. The family lives in Sydney.
Joe Hildebrand The Daily Telegraph
Joe is a journalist and columnist for The Daily Telegraph, Sydney’s biggest newspaper, where he is currently Opinion and Inside Edition editor. His satirical columns and blogs have earned him plenty of fans who enjoy his humorous approach.
Before this, he was co-host of the Channel Ten morning show Studio 10, and co-host of the Triple M drive show The One Percenters. He is also the author of the memoir An Average Joe: My Horribly Abnormal Life.
In 2012 Joe was the host of the provocative ABC2 flagship TV series Dumb, Drunk, and Racist. The highest-rating Australian program in the history of ABC2, the series followed Hildebrand and four Indian travelers around Australia to test whether the popular Indian perception of Australians as stupid, intoxicated bigots was correct.
Joe is also a regular commentator on the ABC (Q&A, The Drum), Seven Network (Sunrise, The Morning Show), Network Ten (The Project), Sky News (PM Live) and a host of radio stations, including 2GB, 4BC and ABC.
Previously a prominent political reporter for the Telegraph, Joe was the only journalist to follow Kevin Rudd on his “fork in the road” tour, covering his 2007 election win from start to finish. Joe also worked for several years in the NSW parliamentary press gallery, resulting in close personal and professional relationships with senior figures on both sides of politics.
Before joining the Telegraph, he was a NSW political correspondent for the Australian Associated Press and also worked for a time in London for the Press Association.
Joe is a Walkley finalist (receiving two commendations), a News Award winner, and a frequent Walkley judge. He was recently named one of the top ten most influential Australians on Twitter. He is also the co-creator and co-author of the upcoming political satire The Campaign, an 8-part series currently in development. Joe has been a full-time professional journalist since coming to Sydney in 2000.
Joe Hildebrand Salary
He earns an average annual salary of $76,738.
Joe Hildebrand Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $3 million as of 2023.
