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Tony Armstrong: Presenter and Writer

Tony Armstrong grew up in rural NSW and is a proud Gamilaroi man. He played AFL for Adelaide, Collingwood and Sydney, where he played alongside one of the Aboriginal men who inspired him as a child, Adam Goodes.

In 2019 Tony became the first Indigenous person to call live action Aussie Rules Football on commercial radio. He also appeared on the Marngrook Footy Show and became a regular panellist on the online panel show The Colour of Your Jumper. In 2020, Tony became the co-host of the Indigenous comedy football chat show Yokayi Footy for NITV, SBS On Demand and via the AFL channels. He then co-hosted ABC Melbourne breakfast radio with Sammy J. In the same year, he joined the ABC, presenting sport on the ABC News channel, commentating for Grandstand AFL on ABC Sport and hosting the 2020 summer series of Offsiders. In 2021, the ABC announced Tony as the full-time sports presenter on News Breakfast and it was for his work on this show, that he won the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent at the 2022 Logie Awards. He followed this up with the Bert Newtown Award for Most Popular Presenter for his work in A Dog’s World with Tony Armstrong and ABC News Breakfast at the 2023 Logie Awards. His other television credits include host of Great Australian Stuff for the ABC as well as regular appearances on The Weekly with Charlie Pickering, The Yearly, The Project and Fox Footy. Tony has also been a guest on several Play School specials and is the voice of Mr Flip on ABC Kids Reef School.

As well as being a rising star in Australian media, Tony is a talented writer/creator and he is currently developing a slate of television projects.