David Speers

David Speers is an Australian journalist and the political editor at Sky News Australia, as well as host of PM Agenda, The Last Word and Speers Tonight.

Speers worked with the Macquarie Radio Network at 2GB, and the Southern Cross radio network, including stations 2UE and 3AW, before joining Sky News Australia in 2000. He has been a member of the National Press Club board since 2005 and is currently a director.

He currently hosts the channel's flagship PM Agenda program Monday to Thursday afternoons. Additionally, he presents political updates and conducts interviews throughout the day on the 24-hour news channel. He also previously commuted from his home in Canberra once a week to Sky News' primary studios in Sydney to host primetime program The Nation with David Speers before the program ended in 2015. On 28 January 2016, Speers began hosting a new weekly Sky News format Speers Tonight from Canberra.

Speers was chosen to moderate the leaders' debate between John Howard and Kevin Rudd for the 2007 Australian Federal Election and again in the 2010 Australian Federal Election between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, as well as the 2013 Australian Federal Election between Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott.

Speers also writes regularly for financial website Switzer.

Between 2006 and 2015, Speers has been awarded with an ASTRA Award for 'outstanding performance' by a presenter or journalist every year with the exception of 2010. The awards were discontinued after 2015.

Speers won a Walkley Award in December 2014 for a notable interview with Attorney General George Brandis, in which Brandis struggled to explain what metadata was despite being the minister in charge of proposed new laws surrounding the storage and police access of metadata. Speers won the same award at the 2015 event (which Speers also hosted) for his notable 'The Fixer' interview with Christopher Pyne on PM Agenda.

In 2016, Speers was named one of the 50 most powerful people in Australian television by News Corp Australia.

Speers lives in Canberra and is married to his wife Liz, and together have a child named Matilda born in 2010. The couple had a second child Olive, who in 2016 while aged 2 years old, was flown from Canberra to the Sydney Children's Hospital and placed on life support for nine days following the onset of croup. Speers plays the trumpet and demonstrated this ability while hosting the 2010 ASTRA Awards.