Newstalk reporter Sarah Madden is with me in studio today because, Sarah, you've been the victim, I suppose, of some commentary about your own accent.

Well, I assumed you were bringing me on today to talk about my rough accent, my incredibly common accent, Andrea.

Yeah, it's funny.

I often look at the text line in News Talk just to see my reports are landing as well as I had hoped.

And instead of the information that I've put across, the people I've interviewed, my reporting style being in the firing line, it is often my accent, how I use my vowels and my words.

It's funny.

I think one of the people who spoke in the Vox there said it very well when they said, we make assumptions about people based on how they speak.

I went,