Denis Walter OAM, (born 3 January 1955) is an Australian radio presenter, baritone singer, recording artist and media personality who also presented television news for 16 years.

Career

Walter's music career has lasted over forty years and he has recorded 16 albums to date. For 16 years until his final bulletin in November 2008 when he left to join Melbourne radio station

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full-time, Walter was a news presenter in regional

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for

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(a former affiliate of the

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). He has also hosted nightly televised

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lottery draws and having presented the weather on ''

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'' in Melbourne earlier in his career, returned for a few weeks in December 2008/January 2009 to fill in for

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(693 AM) Melbourne, replacing

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who retired. Walter regularly performs at concerts throughout Victoria. In August 2018, Walter was announced as a host for the first series on the Nine Network's new travel series ''Helloworld''. Of course, he plus

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, Steven Jacobs and Lauren Phillips would exit from Nine and

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becomes the presenter on the

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enters the show from Series 2. In December 2019,

announced that he will move to a new timeslot in 2020 as the host of a new local program, ''3AW Nights'' replacing John Stanley. Dee Dee Dunleavy has been announced as Walters replacement. He is on a 3-year contract in this role, extendable for a further 3 years.

Community work

Walter is a patron for Cystic Fibrosis Australia, an ambassador for Dementia Australia, the

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, Make A Wish Foundation (South West Victoria) and Barwon Health and also does work for the Neuroscience Foundation and a number of other charitable and community groups. Walter is also the Patron for Samoyed Club of Victoria. Denis also hosts the Carols By Candlelight in

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every year. Each year Walter hosts ''Carols by the Bay'' at Eastern Beach on the

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waterfront, a Christmas concert. He is also a long-standing performer since 1979 at

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's traditional Christmas Eve Carols by Candlelight event in

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Honours

Walter was awarded an

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Medal in the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours list "for service to the performing arts as a singer and entertainer, and to the broadcast media."

Personal life

Walter is married with two stepdaughters and two grandsons. He currently lives in Geelong.

Discography

Albums

* Note: According to Walter's website, as of 2020, he has released 16 albums, therefore, there are four missing from the table above.

References

External links

Denis Walter Official website3AW Afternoons with Denis Walter
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