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Rod Young
Rod Young (born 1951) is a retired Australian journalist and news presenter, with a career spanning 45 years. Young previously presented ''Seven News Brisbane'' with Kay McGrath on weekends between 2013 and 2016, and on weeknights between 2002 and 2012, during which, after years of steady progress, the bulletin overtook the rival ''Nine News Queensland'' as the top-rating news service in Brisbane. Between 2016 and 2021, he presented '' Seven News Gold Coast'' on Mondays to Thursdays. Career Before moving to the Seven Network, Young was the face of news in Brisbane on the ABC where he began working in the late 1970s. Young has had a distinguished career after starting in radio at station 2GO at Gosford on the New South Wales Central Coast. Young was appointed the weeknight newsreader on the ABC in 1985. In October 2002 he moved to ''Seven News'' to present beside Kay McGrath, after long serving news presenter Frank Warrick Francis Michael Warrick (1944 – 11 May 2021) w ...
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Retired
Retirement is the withdrawal from one's position or occupation or from one's active working life. A person may also semi-retire by reducing work hours or workload. Many people choose to retire when they are elderly or incapable of doing their job due to health reasons. People may also retire when they are eligible for private or public pension benefits, although some are forced to retire when bodily conditions no longer allow the person to work any longer (by illness or accident) or as a result of legislation concerning their positions. In most countries, the idea of retirement is of recent origin, being introduced during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Previously, low life expectancy, lack of social security and the absence of pension arrangements meant that most workers continued to work until their death. Germany was the first country to introduce retirement benefits in 1889. Nowadays, most developed countries have systems to provide pensions on retirement ...
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ABC News (Australia)
ABC News, or ABC News and Current Affairs, is a public news service produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Broadcasting within Australia and the rest of the world, the service covers both local and world affairs. The division of the organisation, which is called ABC News, Analysis and Investigations. is responsible for all news-gathering and coverage across the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's various television, radio, and online platforms. Some of the services included under the auspices of the division are the ABC News TV channel (formerly ABC News 24); the long-running radio news programs, '' AM'', '' The World Today'', and '' PM''; ABC NewsRadio, a 24-hour continuous news radio channel; and radio news bulletins and programs on ABC Local Radio, ABC Radio National, ABC Classic FM, and Triple J. ABC News Online has an extensive online presence which includes many written news reports and videos available via ABC Online, an ABC News mobile app (ABC Liste ...
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Seven News Presenters
7 is a number, numeral, and glyph. 7 or seven may also refer to: * AD 7, the seventh year of the AD era * 7 BC, the seventh year before the AD era * The month of July Music Artists * Seven (Swiss singer) (born 1978), a Swiss recording artist * Seven (Korean singer) (born 1984), a South Korean recording artist * Se7en (American singer) (born 1986), the former stage name of Sevyn Streeter * Mick Thomson or #7, an American recording artist * Seven (band), a British AOR band * The Seven (band) a late 1960s rock band from Syracuse, New York * Seven (record producer) (born 1980), an American producer * S Club 7, a British pop band * SVN, a British pop band featuring Aimie Atkinson and Jarnéia Richard-Noel from the cast of ''SIX'' * Sevendust, a hard rock band from Atlanta, Georgia Albums * ''7'' (Apoptygma Berzerk album), 1996 * ''7'' (Beach House album), 2018 * ''7'' (Bushido album), 2007 * ''7'' (Con Funk Shun album), 1981 * ''7'' (David Guetta album), 2018 * ''7'' (David ...
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ABC News (Australia) Presenters
ABC News is the news division of the American broadcast network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast '' ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other programs include morning news-talk show ''Good Morning America'', ''Nightline'', ''Primetime'', and ''20/20'', and Sunday morning political affairs program '' This Week with George Stephanopoulos''. In addition to the division's television programs, ABC News has radio and digital outlets, including ABC News Radio and ABC News Live, plus various podcasts hosted by ABC News personalities. History Early years ABC began in 1943 as the NBC Blue Network, a radio network that was spun off from NBC, as ordered by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1942. The reason for the order was to expand competition in radio broadcasting in the United States, specifically news and political broadcasting, and broaden the projected points of view. The radio market was dominated by only a few companies, such as NBC ...
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Australian Television Journalists
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Steve Titmus
Steve Titmus is an Australian journalist, and presenter of Channel 7’s Gold Coast Nightly News along with Amanda Abate. Media Titmus began his career as a cadet journalist at The Examiner in Launceston, Tasmania where he worked from 1979 until 1984 before moving into television. He was them employed as a journalist at TasTV (now WIN Television) from November 1984 until November 1988. In late 1988, Titmus moved to Adelaide to take up a role as a sports reporter and presenter at Channel 7 Adelaide where he stayed until November 1991. Following his stint in Adelaide, Titmus returned to Tasmania to be the sports editor and presenter at Southern Cross, eventually moving up to become the main anchor of the news bulletin in 1997. During the time he anchored ''Southern Cross News'', the bulletin recorded ratings success, with Titmus' average audience figures having not been passed since.
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Bill McDonald (Australian Journalist)
Bill McDonald (born 1967) is an Australian journalist and news presenter. Career Previously McDonald had been a sports presenter but was promoted to news presenter when Geoff Mullins left ''Ten News''. He was also a sports presenter on ''Seven News''. In the summer of January 2010, McDonald presented '' Ten Early News'', ''Ten Morning News'' and ''Ten Weekend News'' from Sydney. In 2011, McDonald continued to present '' 10 News First Queensland'' and also continued to be the Queensland AFL ground commentator for Ten's national AFL coverage, mainly for matches involving the Brisbane Lions. McDonald is active in other media and events in Brisbane. He broadcasts daily AFL reports on the Macquarie Southern Cross national radio network daily, as well as his Friday footy tips on Sunshine Coast's 92.7 Mix FM. He's a regular MC at functions and in 2010 was appointed as the Queensland Rugby Club's corporate lunch host until 2012. McDonald has also commentated AFL for Triple M Radio ...
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Sharyn Ghidella
Sharyn Ghidella is an Australian journalist and news presenter. Ghidella currently presents ''Seven News Brisbane'' with Max Futcher from Monday to Friday.Profile: Sharyn Ghidella
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Career

Ghidella's career in television began in the region, as a reporter and presenter for North Queensland Television (now 10 QLD). She also produced and presented the regional weekly current affairs program, ''Newsweek''. She moved to Brisbane to work with 's News division, before going to the

Andrew Lofthouse
Andrew Lofthouse (born 1962 or 1963) is a television and radio newsreader based in Brisbane, Australia. The former teacher is the weeknight presenter of ''Nine News Queensland'' with Melissa Downes, having previously presented on weekends. Prior to working at ''Nine News'', he presented the weekday evening news bulletin of '' ABC News Queensland'', as well as reading the news on the 612 ABC Brisbane radio station on weekday afternoons. Lofthouse started his broadcasting career at a community radio station on the Gold Coast and began working for ABC Radio (in Rockhampton) in 1990. He moved to ABC Radio Brisbane (then called 612 4QR, now 612 ABC Brisbane) at the end of 1993. In 2003, he began working on ABC television (whilst also reading ABC Radio news bulletins). In 2003 Andrew Lofthouse was named the 2003 "Queensland TV Personality of the Year" in an online poll conducted by 612 ABC Brisbane. Lofthouse is also a musician with the alternative rock band Let's Go Naked which has ...
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Frank Warrick
Francis Michael Warrick (1944 – 11 May 2021) was an Australian journalist and newsreader and TV game show host. Biography Warrick began his career in radio as a disc jockey in Toowoomba in 1963 with AM radio station 4GR, and in 1965 he was the first voice heard on the new Gold Coast AM radio station 4GG. Warrick joined Seven Brisbane as a newsreader in 1976 and served in the position until his retirement in 2001, including a role as co-presenter of 13 years opposite Kay McGrath. In 1991, prison escapee Harold John McSweeney surrendered to Warrick and a television helicopter crew on the Queensland Darling Downs, purportedly to avoid being shot by the Queensland Police. Warrick hosted the game show ''The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime'' in 1999—before the program was taken over by sports journalist Sandy Roberts. Warrick was also a regular host on the Australian documentary series '' The World Around Us''. In 1994, Warrick was awarded the OAM for "services to the media, t ...
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Seven News
''7NEWS'' is the television news service of the Seven Network and, as of 2021, the highest-rating in Australia. National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition television, high definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth city based studios. The network also produces local news bulletins and updates for the Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast, as well as regional markets in Queensland, New South Wales (including the ACT), Victoria, Australia, Victoria and Western Australia. It draws upon the resources of ITN, NBC News, NBC, Warner Bros. Discovery, CBC News, CBC, CNN, Associated Press Television News, APTN and Reuters for select international coverage. The network's Director of News and Current Affairs is Craig McPherson. History ''7NEWS'' — previously known as ''ATVN News'', ''Channel Seven News'', ''Seven Eyewitness News'', ''Seven National News'', ''Seven Nightly Ne ...
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Gosford
Gosford is the city and administrative centre of the Central Coast Council local government area in the heart of the Central Coast region, about north of Sydney and about south of Newcastle. The city centre is situated at the northern extremity of Brisbane Water, an extensive northern branch of the Hawkesbury River estuary and Broken Bay. The suburb is the administrative centre and Central Business District of the Central Coast region, which is the third largest urban area in New South Wales after Sydney and Newcastle. Following its formation from the combination of the previous Gosford City Council and Wyong Shire Councils, Gosford has been earmarked as a vital CBD spine under the NSW Metropolitan Strategy. The population of the Gosford area was 169,053 in 2016. History Until white settlement, the area around Gosford was inhabited by the Guringai peoples, who were principally coastal-dwellers, and the Darkinjung people that inhabited the hinterland. Along with the other ...
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