Eva Milic (born 27 June 1978) is an Australian journalist who represented Australia at Miss World 2001. Milic is currently the presenter of ''

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''.

Career

Milic completed a Bachelor of Business degree in 2001 after graduating from St Michael's College on the Gold Coast. After graduating she launched herself into modelling and she was crowned

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and represented Australia at the international

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contest. Milic graduated from

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with a Master of Journalism and Mass Communication degree in 2005 and received awards in academic excellence. It was during her university studies in January 2004 that Milic was offered a freelance position with ''

'', replacing

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as the program's full-time weather presenter in January 2006. Alongside her weather presenting commitments, Milic was also a reporter for Nine Gold Coast News. In January 2009, Milic replaced

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as the weekend presenter of ''

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'', co-hosting with

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. Eva was also a regular fill in presenter for ''Nine News Queensland'' on weeknights filling in for presenter

. In July 2009, she was replaced as weekend presenter by

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, who moved back to the newsdesk following the axing of ''Extra''. Milic moved to presenting the weather on the weekend bulletin until she resigned from the role, being replaced by Paul Burt and

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. In 2011, Eva returned to presenting ''

'' on weekends, replacing Foord who left the network altogether. In October 2014, Milic was appointed ''Nine Morning News Queensland'' and ''Nine Afternoon News Queensland'' (later ''Nine Live Queensland'') presenter. She presented both bulletins between Mondays and Thursdays inclusive, with the former bulletin axed without notice in mid-2017.

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replaced her as weekend presenter. In January 2018, Milic scaled back her duties at Channel Nine Brisbane to present only the Monday to Wednesday editions of ''Nine Live Queensland''. On 24 September 2018, She swapped roles with

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to co-host Nine Gold Coast News with Bruce Paige while Wendy will present Nine Live Queensland from Monday to Wednesday. She has also been a fill in presenter for Wendy Kingston on ''

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''. Apart from her profession as a journalist, she has a keen interest in property and renovating houses in the Brisbane and Gold Coast areas.

Personal life

Milic is married and has two children.

References

External links

Eva Milic profileNine News website
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