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Negus in October 2011 |
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| Born | George Edward Negus 13 March 1942 Brisbane, Queensland |
| Residence | Australia |
| Alma mater | University of Queensland |
| Occupation | Television & Radio presenter Journalist |
| Known for | 60 Minutes (1979 - 1986) Today (1986 - 1990) Dateline (2005 - 2010) The Project (2009 - present) 6:30 with George Negus (2011) |
George Edward Negus (born 12 March 1942) is an Australian author, journalist, and television presenter. He previously presented 6:30 with George Negus on Network Ten, until it was axed by the Network on 19 October 2011.[1]
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Negus attended Indooroopilly State High School located in the Brisbane suburb of Indooroopilly in Queensland. Negus studied arts and journalism at the University of Queensland.
Negus was a high school teacher before writing for The Australian and The Australian Financial Review. He served as press secretary for Attorney-General Lionel Murphy.[2][3] He became most prominent, however, as a reporter for This Day Tonight, a pioneering current affairs show on the ABC which began in 1967 and continued through the late 1960s and into the 1970s, and later in the heyday of the Australian 60 Minutes from 1979 until 1986, and then hosted Today until 1990.
From 1992 until 1999, he hosted the ABC's foreign-themed current affairs Foreign Correspondent. After this project he went to live in Italy for several years.
In 2002, Negus returned to the ABC and hosted the early evening timeslot show George Negus Tonight covering "trends and issues with an Australia-wide team of reporters and producers". The show was axed in November 2004.[4]
In 2005, Negus went on to host Dateline on the SBS network.[5]
Negus has also written several books, including one based on his time in Italy, and co-wrote a series of children's books with Kirsty Cockburn, his partner, in the early 1990s. His latest, successful book is The World from Islam, an investigation of the Islamic world.
In 2011, he began hosting 6:30 with George Negus on Network Ten.[6]
Negus lives on a farm near Bellingen on the New South Wales northern coast, with his partner, Kirsty Cockburn, herself a journalist and a collaborator on many of Negus's projects, and their sons Ned and Serge. Negus is a fan of association football and a former board member of the national governing body Soccer Australia, as it was known at the time.[7][8]
| Preceded by Steve Liebmann |
Today Co-Host with Patrice Newell and Liz Hayes 1986 - 1990 |
Succeeded by Steve Liebmann |
| Preceded by originator |
George Negus Tonight Host 2001 - 2004 |
Succeeded by program axed |
| Preceded by Mark Davis |
Dateline Host 2005 - 2010 |
Succeeded by Mark Davis and Yalda Hakim |
| Preceded by originator |
6:30 with George Negus Presenter January 2011 - October 2011 |
Succeeded by program axed |
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