Mickie de Stoop is an Australian former radio and television presenter. She is credited with helping improve the representation of female journalists on Australian television by hosting daytime

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programs in the 1970's that were produced and presented solely by women, including ''No Man's Land'' on GTV-9 and ''Shoulder to Shoulder'' on ATV-0.

Television

Starting as a reporter on ''No Man's Land'' when it launched in March 1974, de Stoop succeeded the original host

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. After the program was moved to another timeslot which producer Robyn Miller later described as "unworkable" and was also challenged by censorship, it was axed in 1976. In 1976, a photograph of de Stoop appeared on the front cover of the Christmas edition of Melbourne's '' Sunday Observer'' TV magazine. De Stoop then hosted a program called ''Shoulder to Shoulder'' from 1977 to 1978 on ATV-0 but after the show was forced by management to be a

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program rather than a

program, it too was axed. In 1988, de Stoop was part of the ambitious national '' Australia Live - Celebration of a Nation'' telecast, which was held as part of the

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. Her role during the telecast was to do a live cross from the

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. De Stoop was one of the many former GTV-9 personalities invited back to the original studios in

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in 2010 for a special farewell celebration prior to the building being demolished to make way for a new apartment complex.

Radio

De Stoop has had a successful career as a radio presenter. Throughout her career, de Stoop worked at a variety of radio stations including

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, 3DB,

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, and

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Legacy

In 2014, entertainment reporter Peter Ford listed de Stoop as being one of five people in the Australian entertainment industry he personally believed to be a national living treasure. Despite describing his choice as "radical" and declaring his friendship with de Stoop, Ford said he named her in his list of five due to her pivotal role in hosting television programs that were presented by and for women which covered issues that weren't usually discussed on television at that time.

References

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