Patrick (Pat) Abboud is a twice Walkley winning investigative journalist, producer, writer, director, presenter. He is the founder of Only Human Productions and a creative partner in Dreamchaser Studios (Australia), led by Carl Fennessy and Hugh Marks, backed by Fifth Season (USA).
Pat is currently in pre-production on his next true crime investigative series and his acclaimed documentary project ‘RISE’ just received Screen Australia production funding.
Pat was awarded 2023 Freelance Journalist of the Year by the Walkley Foundation.
Pat is a 4-time medallist at the New York Festivals TV & Radio Awards, 4-time winner at the Australian Podcast Awards, a SXSW Innovation Award and Kennedy Award for Best Long Form Television Current Affairs winner, a Webby Award finalist and 2-time LGBTQ+ Presenter of the Year finalist. Pat’s work has been nominated for the prestigious Rose D’Or in Europe, a duPont Colombia award and a coveted International Documentary Association award.
In 2025 Pat is producing, directing and presenting 30min episodes as a contributor to ABC TV documentary program Compass.
Pat’s 2024 groundbreaking personal film, 'Gayrabia’ for ABC TV was Highly Commended for Best Direction in Documentary at the Australian Directors Guild Awards (ADG) and was featured on Gogglebox.
Pat’s 2023 film ‘Kids Raising Kids’ for SBS documentary strand Australia Uncovered, was nominated for Best Documentary at AIDC and Best Direction at the ADG Awards.
From 2020 - 2023 Pat was brought onto The Project (Network Ten) to produce and present long form investigative features.
In 2023 he reported for 7 News Spotlight.
Pat is the co-creator, writer and host of Amazon/Audible Original genre bending queer true crime documentary series, ‘The Greatest Menace: Inside The Gay Prison Experiment’. The investigative series has won 22 international awards including the 2022 Walkley Award for Best Radio/Audio Feature, The Grand Jury Prize and Podcast of The Year at the 2023 Drum Awards in London.
The documentary won Best Limited Series Documentary in the USA at the 2023 Signal Awards.
Pat was also nominated for Best Reporting at the 2023 Ambie Awards in the USA alongside journalists he admires like Anderson Cooper.
World Pride honoured Pat as one of 45 Rainbow champions for his ongoing commitment to storytelling within the queer community.
In 2021 Pat hosted Australia’s most downloaded interview podcast, ‘ABC Conversations’. He was part of the team who created hit ABC ‘first-person’ documentary series ‘Days Like These’ launched in 2021. He was lead reporter and a sound designer on the first two seasons.
In 2020, Pat was the inaugural Jesse Cox Audio fellowship recipient. He spent 12 months developing and experimenting with new sonic storytelling formats. In the same year, he also presented the World Nomads TV ‘Mexico Discoveries’ series for Travel Channel USA and the Australian pilot of MTV’s Catfish on Network Ten.
Pat founded his own production company in 2019, Only Human. Through the company he continues to produce original news documentaries, streaming series, podcasts and immersive films for global audiences.
2018 saw Pat win 3 United Nations Media Awards for his television news and current affairs reporting.
In 2016 Pat won TV Journalist of the Year at the ACON LGBTQI+ Honour Awards.
From 2013 – 2018, at VICE TV & SBS TV, Pat founded Logie nominated and multi-award-winning nightly news and current affairs show, ‘The Feed’ and was a foreign correspondent for Dateline.
He’s reported around the globe in many countries from Gaza under siege, to black-market surrogacy in Bangkok to terror attacks in Christchurch and gay hate crimes across America.
Pat also developed and directed content for the annual SBS Mardi Gras live TV broadcast and was the co-host for 8 years. He also created and hosted an international queer movie show for the networks.
Pat received a Walkley nomination for Best Multimedia Storytelling for his work on The Feed.
Starting his storytelling career in audio, presenting and reporting for pop culture program Alchemy radio and triple j’s daily current affairs program HACK. His intimate TV interview series #PatChat has clocked over 50 million views online. Some of Pat’s favourite episodes include Sam Smith, Rami Malek & Daniel Johns.
Pat’s immersive and interactive films have been commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney and are part of the permanent collection at Museum of Democracy.
Pat is an ambassador for Twenty10, Wear it Purple and Rainbow Giving, advocating for LGBTQ+ young people. He has emceed hundreds of events, hosted in-conversations on stage, and delivered powerful keynotes.
Pat speaks Arabic and German and is Dad to two kids. When he’s not on your screens or in your ears, you’ll find Pat in the kitchen cooking up a feast with his gigantic Middle Eastern extended family.