
Kirsten Drysdale
Drysdale was born and raised in Mackay, Queensland.
Before beginning her career at the ABC, Drysdale worked for a production company in Brisbane that produced documentaries and multimedia for museums and exhibitions. During this time, she was also pursuing a sporting career, playing hockey for the Queensland Scorchers. After suffering an injury, she successfully applied for a position in the ABC television comedy and current affairs programme, Project NEXT, which was later renamed Hungry Beast.
She was a researcher and presenter for Hungry Beast and a researcher for The Hamster Wheel, The Hamster Decides and The Gruen Transfer. She has also occasionally appeared on Radio National, where she hosted Talking Shop, a weekly consumer psychology program. The series ended on 5 August 2014. Drysdale has also written for Crikey, The Feed (Australian TV series) and The Global Mail. She was a writer and one of the main presenters on the ABC consumer affairs comedy programme, The Checkout.
In 2020 Drysdale co-hosted Reputation Rehab with Zoe Norton Lodge, a TV series discussing the rehabilitation of reputations of people caught in scandals and controversies.
Drysale's memoir, I Built No Schools in Kenya: A Year of Unmitigated Madness, was published in January 2019 by Vintage Australia.
In 2024, Drysale begun a YouTube channel "The Internet, Reviewed", focusing on episodic reviews of Internet personalities.
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