Stan Grant, jr.

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Stan Grant (born in 1963) is an Australian journalist of Indigenous extraction.

[edit] Career

He has had a career as a news reader and presenter on Australia radio (Macquarie Radio Network) and television (Seven Network, Australian Broadcasting Corporation), but has most recently presented for CNN in Hong Kong and from January 2005 in Beijing. (Hugh Riminton has taken his seat in Hong Kong.)

The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that Stan has been approached by SBS Television to co-present the extended 6.30pm SBS News bulletin in early 2007. SBS also employs his former wife Karla Grant on the program Living Black.

In November 2006 SBS Television confirmed that Stan Grant would be co-presenting the extended bulletin next year.

[edit] Family and Social

Grant a member of the Wiradjuri tribe of Indigenous Australians from the south-west inland region of the state of New South Wales, Australia.

Grant was married to Karla with whom he had three children. A well publicised marriage break-up in 2000, prior to the Sydney Olympic Games, resulted from his starting a relationship with fellow TV personality Tracey Holmes. His employment at Seven was terminated as a result, and they moved to Hong Kong. They now live in Beijing with their child and several of his children from his former marriage.

Grant is the son of Stan Grant who has been active in reconstructing Australian Aboriginal languages, notably his Wiradjuri language (along with John Rudder.)