Monica Attard OAM is a five-time Walkley award-winning Australian journalist – including the Gold Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism 1991. She was the host of the ABC’s PM, the World Today and Media Watch.

She spent 28 years at the ABC, leaving to start up The Global Mail where she was, until recently, the Managing Editor.

In 1997, Monica published a book entitled Russia: Which Way Paradise?documenting her time there as a foreign correspondent.

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Mrs Woog can be found in the laundry, folding laundry, sorting laundry and dropping off the dry cleaning. She is a mum to two boys, boss of her husband and master of a cat and two guinea pigs.

Come nightfall, she watches TV while tweeting which drives Mr Woog insane. She likes to read cookbooks and eat out.

During her waking hours she ferries kids around in the Mazda while drinking takeaway coffees and listening to talkback. She used to work in the publishing industry before she realised it was nothing like Elaine from Seinfeld made out like it was. Now she writes this blog.

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