Sophie McNeill is an Australian journalist,[1][2] television presenter,[3] author[4] and human rights activist.
[8][5] McNeill began making documentaries in 2001, her first film highlighted the crippling health crisis in a recently-liberated East Timor, for which she received Western Australia's Young Person of the Year Award.
[citation needed] McNeill has worked for ABC's Foreign Correspondent, SBS's Dateline and is a former host of the news and current affairs program Hack on Triple J.
She has twice been awarded Australian Young TV Journalist of the Year, and in 2010 won a Walkley award for her investigation into the killing of five children in Afghanistan by Australian special forces soldiers, and was nominated for a Walkley in 2015 for her coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis.
[15] In 2024, McNeill nominated to be a candidate on the Greens WA upper house ticket in the 2025 Western Australian state election.