Charlotte Hamlyn

Charlotte Hamlyn is a Western Australian journalist, reporter, and news presenter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Hamlyn graduated from the University of Western Australia in 2008 with a degree in Communications/English, and started her media career working for a newspaper in Kalgoorlie. In 2008 and 2009 she was an exchange student at the University of Pennsylvania.
She started at the ABC in 2009, working as a journalist and reporter, travelling around Western Australia, and overseas for Foreign Correspondent.
She also regularly appeared on ABC Radio Perth, including co-hosting the weekend Breakfast program.
Hamlyn presented the ABC News for one month in 2013, filling in while James McHale was on leave.
She presented that news on Friday-Sunday from September 2020 until August 2021 when she went on maternity leave. She was replaced by Briana Shepherd, then returned in June 2022.
Hamlyn is a member of the board of the arts organisation Form.