Tom Forrest

Tom Forrest is a proud Yorta Yorta man raised in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. His media career started in 2017 after appearing in the ABC ME television show My Year 12 Life. Tom went on to have his own ABC iview series The Kununurra Kid, where he explored Australia and found the lost parts of his Indigenous family, finishing off the series in LA.

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Since then, he has worked for ABC Kimberley, triple j radio and ABC Indigenous as a journalist, finding stories within community and telling them through radio, TV and social media. With his Grandad, Tom runs the social media page Outback Tom, which showcases life out bush, different meals, outback living, cooking, tips and tricks.