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Lisa Barnes leaves 6PR after 13 years

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Stephanie McKennaThe West Australian
Lisa Barnes has announced that she will be leaving 6PR
Camera IconLisa Barnes has announced that she will be leaving 6PR Credit: Honey/Nine

6PR journalist Lisa Barnes has made an emotional farewell after 13 years with the broadcaster.

The mother of two — who is currently on maternity leave from her job as news director — joined Gareth Parker on Breakfast this morning to announce her resignation from the station.

“This is difficult news and it’s going to make me choke up,” she said.

“To the 6PR family and the listeners, I have resigned.

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“I am sad to be leaving the 6PR family and obviously all our beautiful listeners. But it’s a new chapter in my life and I am really looking forward to what I’m doing next. I’m going to a highly regarded PR company here in Perth, Profile Media, and I’m very excited about that.

“Barnsy from the burbs” joined the broadcaster when she was 22-years-old and said it had been with her “through some massive milestones”

“I am genuinely sad to be leaving the listeners, because I feel as if I have grown up on this station,” she said.

“I have gone through an engagement, a marriage and two children, and it is sad to say goodbye after 13 years but as the wise man says...the time has come.

Lisa Barnes with 6PR colleague Gareth Parker.
Camera IconLisa Barnes with 6PR colleague Gareth Parker. Credit: 6PR

Parker said the radio station “hasn’t been the same without you” and had high praises for the news boss who is “an inspiration to young women in the industry”.

“I’m really really sad on a personal level. I was really looking forward to you coming back to work and rejoining the newsroom,” he said.

“You’re a great journalist, you’re a fabulous leader of your team.

“People don’t see the pressures you have behind the scenes in managing, rosters and all the rest of it but they’ve always heard you come across the airwaves with that sunshine in your voice.”

The station opened the phone lines up to their callers who joined in farewelling Barnes.

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