Elfy Scott

Elfy is a journalist, presenter and author.

She is known for the highly successful Spotify exclusive Australian politics podcast Left Right Out, which she produced and co-hosted over the 2022 federal election period.

Elfy has also made frequent appearances on some of Australia’s most popular radio and podcast shows including Mamamia Out Loud, The Spill, The Quicky, ABC Radio Sydney and Triple j’s Hack program.

Her debut book, ‘The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About’ focused on the experience of people living with complex mental health conditions in Australia and the failures of the mental health care system. The book was published by Pantera Press in early 2023.

Elfy started out her journalism career in youth media publications and gained her footing at BuzzFeed News Australia as the newsroom’s first science reporter. She has since written for a large number of publications, including The Saturday Paper, SBS News, The Guardian, The Age, VICE and the ABC.

She also worked as the senior producer and host of the daily video news show, The Junkee Takeaway for Junkee Media, which secured over 20 million views in its first year. In 2021 she took home a 30 Under 30 award from B&T in the Producer/Journalist category for her work on this show.

In her life as a presenter, Elfy has worked with a number of high-profile brands including Amplify, Red Bull, Google, Snapchat, Greenpeace and Bank Australia. She has hosted short-form science documentaries for the ABC as well as producing online video series for publications such as Refinery29.

In 2024 Elfy was granted a Writers Victoria’s Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund for work on her second book, which is focusing on generational inequality and hope.

She is always looking to collaborate with new teams, flex her journalism and presenting muscles and take on ambitious projects.