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Virginia Trioli to leave the ABC after 27 years Virginia Trioli will leave the ABC after 27 years at the national broadcaster, she announced this morning. She spoke to ABC News Breakfast, saying it “feels right” to leave now to pursue her own creative projects. She said: double quotation mark This job is holding a morning audience in your hands, every morning letting them know whether their world is safe or not and keeping that connection going, and it’s gold. I’m proud of that body of work and I’m really happy to leave now because, after spending the last few years with, you know, distinctive great Australian creatives, I’ve come to realise I’m a bit of a creative type myself. So I’m off to do my own work. I’ve been working on a number of little projects in my spare time. That’s become a clarion call now, about, well, if you’re not going to do it now, Trioli, when are you going to do it? And so that’s what I’m heading off to do. She said that would include writing and “at least another couple of books”. View image in fullscreen Virginia Trioli. Photograph: ABC