Peter Holland
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Peter Holland is a newsreader from Perth, Western Australia. He worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in radio and television news from 1971 to 2005 when he moved to Channel Nine to read the television news.
In the 1984 federal election he unsuccessfully ran for the seat of Division of Forrest for the Australian Labor Party.[1]
In 1995, he won the Western Australian Citizen Of The Year (community services) award. As a keen writer, he won the Premier's Book Award in 1994 for an anthology of Western Australian writing.
In 2004, Peter left his role with local television station STW-9 and took up a full time teaching post with Edith Cowan University, having been a part-time member of staff since 2001[2]. Since 2005, he has been coordinator of the post-graduate diploma media course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) at the Edith Cowan University campus.[3]
Holland currently resides in the Perth hills where he has resided for a number of years.
[edit] References
- ^ Journalists in Parliament. crikey.com (27 February 2007). Retrieved on March 11, 2007.
- ^ ECU Student News. Edith Cowan University Corporate Communications (26 November 2003). Retrieved on March 11, 2007.
- ^ WAAPA produces broadcasting stars. Edith Cowan University Communications Programme (28 April 2006). Retrieved on March 11, 2007.
[edit] Works
- As editor -(1993) Summer shorts : stories-poems-articles-images, South Fremantle, W.A : Fremantle Arts Centre Press. ISBN 1863680659
- As editor - with Barbara Holland (1994) Summer shorts : stories-poems-articles-images. 2 , South Fremantle, W.A : Fremantle Arts Centre Press. ISBN 1863681000
- With - Byrski, Liz. (1996) The grapevine : quick and tasty cookbook . South Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press. ISBN 1863681744
