Monika Kos (born 2 December 1967,

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Career

Kos is best known for presenting the Western Australian edition of the

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's evening current affairs program ''

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'' from 1997 until it was axed in 2019. Kos studied at Loreto Nedlands and John XXIII College and is a graduate of the

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. She worked at Perth radio station

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in the late 1980s in various roles including as a presenter before she joined Channel 7 in Perth as a cadet journalist in 1990. In December 2019, it was announced Kos had joined

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and would replace

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as presenter of the Perth edition of ''

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''. In August 2020, Kos was made redundant by

. She presented her final Perth-based ''10 News First'' bulletin on 11 September before production of the state-based Perth bulletin moves to Sydney. On 2 December 2020, it was announced that Kos is joining '' Nine News Perth'' to front a new live and local one-hour bulletin at 5pm, commencing Monday, 7 December.

Personal life

Kos is the daughter of Friedrich Anton Kos (an architect and architectural photographer) and Jane Margaret née Roper (a graphic artist and painter). Kos has an older half-brother, David, a farmer in

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. Kos is of

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n descent, her father was born in

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in 1926 and migrated to Australia in 1951 following

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. Kos is married to Grant Willesee, a camera operator and son of

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References

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