Karina Carvalho is an Australian journalist.

Carvalho was born in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

, and moved to Winthrop, Western Australia

Winthrop, Western Australia

Winthrop is a southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Melville.-History:Winthrop was originally a pine tree plantation owned by the University of Western Australia. The first blocks were sold in the early 1980s. After the first residents moved in, more blocks were...

 at the age of four. She graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts , Edith Cowan University was established in 1980 to provide performing arts tuition comparable to the highest calibre of national and international training benchmarks to be able to meet industry needs around the globe.The school is located in the...

.

After work experience in Perth

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

 and Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 she moved to the UK, where she worked with the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 as a journalist and producer on programs such as HARDtalk

HARDtalk

Hardtalk is a flagship BBC television programme, consisting of in-depth half-hour one-on-one interviews.It is broadcast four days a week on BBC World News and the BBC News channel. Launched in 1997, much of its worldwide fame is due to its global reach via BBC World...

, and on assignment to the US.

In 2006 she returned to Perth, and in 2007 started work with the ABC, initially with casual work in the newsroom, progressing to full time on-camera reporting, before being promoted to role of presenter, following the resignation of Alicia Gorey

Alicia Gorey

Alicia Gorey is an Australian journalist and news presenter. She is currently weekend news presenter on Nine News Melbourne.-Career:...

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In 2011, Carvalho will replace Virginia Trioli

Virginia Trioli

Virginia Frances Trioli is an award-winning Australian journalist and author.-Biography:Born in Bendigo, she attended Donvale High School and graduated from La Trobe University in the 1980s, with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a fine arts major in cinema...

 on ABC News Breakfast

ABC News Breakfast

ABC News Breakfast is an Australian breakfast television programme which broadcasts on ABC1 & ABC News 24 from 6am - 9am on weekdays. The program airs live in all Australian timezones on the high-definition digital free-to-air channel ABC News 24...

whilst she is on maternity leave.