Brooke Boney book: Former TV presenter on her memoir All Of It and Today Show return

Former Today presenter Brooke Boney has made a brief, triumphant return to the show she resigned from in 2024.

Boney, 37, announced her shock decision to leave her high-profile position live on air in August, explaining she’d been accepted into Master of Public Policy at Oxford University.

Boney flew to the UK and threw herself into student life. Now she’s back in Australia – and on our screens – promoting her next venture, a memoir called All of It.

“It’s so weird,” Boney tells 9honey of her return to the Today show set.

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“So, this is the first time that I’ve been back since I left to go to Oxford. It does feel different.

“I feel more fresh, and I think that that’s probably testament to how difficult the early mornings are.

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“But I think as well, this is something that’s really lovely. And it’s something that I’m super proud of.”

All Of It is a series of essays on every friction point Boney had been pondering, including her struggles with public life, her decision to leave Today, fertility, ageing and Indigenous affairs in Australia.

She says being able to share her stories in book form has been fulfilling.

“I’ve been on TV or radio for pretty much all of my adult life … normally you have to sort of make things really succinct for broadcast,” Boney says.

“You explain things in a two- or three-minute slot and then you lose the context or you lose the full meaning of things, and it’s so easy for people to misconstrue what you’re saying, wilfully or otherwise.

“When you’re writing a book, it’s just like all there. If you misunderstand it, it’s because you want to. Because the context is there.”

Purchase your copy of Brooke Boney’s All of it here.

Boney knew the exact topics she wanted to delve into in her first book and they were everything she had been grappling with as a modern, successful Indigenous woman at an age when her fertility was very much on her mind.

She spoke about her decision to freeze her eggs and impact that had on her while still working on Today.

“I think the fertility one was really, really important for me to sort of really delve into, because it’s such a difficult and uncomfortable thing to unpack,” she says.

“On one hand, you know, biology and aging bodies and the natural limits of what our bodies can do, but then on the other hand it’s linked intrinsically to whether or not you’ve found love or whether or not you can find partnership with someone that you would want to have a baby with,” she says.

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“And I know egg freezing isn’t the be all and end all, it doesn’t fix everything. And in fact, most women don’t even go back to get their eggs.

“It’s more just like it gives you the peace of mind to live a bit more freely.”

Boney is asked often what she has planned for her future, once her post-graduate studies are completed.

“I don’t even know,” she says.

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“I’ll just have to wait and see. I don’t think I’m being steered towards anything, but I’m excited about what the next year is going to look like, or the next 10 years is going to look like.”

As a proud Gamilaroi woman, Indigenous affairs are always on Boney’s mind.

”Australia is the only Commonwealth country in the world to not have a treaty or some sort of recognition of Indigenous people in its constitution,” she writes in her memoir.

She revisits the pain of hosting Nine’s coverage of the Voice to Parliament referendum in 2023 and having to deliver the news live on air that the vote was ‘No’.

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”The grief I felt was as bad as any I’ve ever experienced,” she reflected.

“I was grieving not just for myself or because of the result but for the decades of expertise now slandered in the mainstream because of this toxic, doomed poll.”

Boney tells 9honey the image of Australia being reflected back to her during her time living in the UK is that Indigenous Australians are “such a core part of our identity”.

“We should be proud of that,” she says.

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