She is smart, powerful, cheeky, mysterious and – more than anything – surprising.
Her deep, authoritative voice has carried from our television screens into our lounge rooms for decades. A voice that makes us sit up and listen… Whether the subject is “war in the Middle East” or “who is that handsome man?”.
Her brave and outspoken fashion, worn on a tiny frame, also makes us sit a little straighter: Yes, that is a bird on her shoulder. Yes, that is a fascinator growing out the side of her head. Yes, she is wearing yellow suspenders over a yellow dress-shirt over yellow pants.
Her killer sense of humour and naturalness in front of a camera – delivering news, conducting interviews, being interviewed, hosting children’s shows, appearing in dramas – always has us gasping for more.
Who is this woman?
Lee Lin Chin – “This is your queen speaking” – has been a journalist since 1968.
We’ve heard her on SBS since 1980 when she moved to Australia from Singapore.
At first, she was employed as a translator for Chinese-language films. She quickly moved up the ranks. Working for a stint at the ABC before returning to SBS as a World News presenter and, more recently, creating small segments for the broadcaster’s satire series The Feed.
There are a handful of things you might not know about the Jakarta-born, bird-wearing, smart-as-a-whip enigma that is Lee Lin Chin:
She can speak Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Fukien fluently.
She loves beer.
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