Claire Kimball, Founder/MD of Squiz Media, The Squiz is an independent digital news platform delivering agenda-free news for busy people, launched from Claire’s kitchen in 2017. Before that, she spent 11 years as an adviser to the Howard Government and to Liberal leader Tony Abbott during the extraordinary 2010 election campaign, plus 6 years as the comms lead at Woolworths Group. In 2025, the Squiz Today podcast ranks regularly in Australia’s top 10 – PM Anthony Albanese chose it for his first podcast interview of the year. Claire has also driven the development of Squiz Kids that produces world-leading programs helping the next generation become critical consumers of online information.