George Negus Biography
George Negus is an Australian journalist, author, television and radio host, and international affairs expert. He was a pioneer of Australian television journalism, initially on ABC’s trailblazing This Day Tonight and later on Sixty Minutes.
How old is George Negus? – Age
He is 81 years old as of 13 March 2023. He was born George Edward Negus in 1942 in Brisbane, Australia.
George Negus Education
Negus attended Inala State High School and Indooroopilly State High School, both of which are located in the Brisbane suburb of Indooroopilly. He attended the University of Queensland and majored in arts and media.
Does George Negus have children? – Who is George Negs married to?
He is married to Kirsty Cockburn. His children were raised on a farm near Bellingen on New South Wales’ northern coast, where he lived for 15 years with his wife, journalist Kirsty Cockburn, who collaborated on many of Negus’ projects. Serge Cockburn, Negus’s son, played Mikey Dundee with Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001). Negus is an avid supporter of association football and a former board member of Soccer Australia (as it was known at the time).
George Negus Health
Negus lived at Bellingen before being admitted to a Sydney nursing home in late 2021 due to dementia. Negus explains phantom, which he has experienced as a result of a brain injury sustained in a skateboard accident. It happens in those who have lost their sense of smell. People who have phantomia imagine strange, unusual, unpleasant, or even ecstatic odors. It is a rare condition that can develop as a result of brain traumas, strokes, seizures, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurological conditions.
George Negus Books
Negus has written several novels, including one on his time in Italy, and in the early 1990s, he co-wrote a six-part series of children’s books with his spouse, Kirsty Cockburn. The World from DownUnder – A Conversation with Recent History, published by HarperCollins Australia, is his most recent book. His best-selling 2004 book The World from Islam is an exploration of the Islamic world as viewed through Negus’ travels in the Middle East. In The World from Islam, Negus defends Islam against extremist allegations by citing Islam’s variety.
George Negus 60 Minutes
From 1979 to 1986, he was a founding correspondent for the Australian 60 Minutes show, and then co-hosted Today Australia until 1990.
George Negus Career
Negus rose to prominence as a reporter for This Day Tonight, an ABC pioneering current affairs show that aired from 1967 to the late 1960s and early 1970s. Negus was the inaugural host of ABC’s foreign-themed current affairs show Foreign Correspondent from 1992 to 1999. He subsequently took a professional sabbatical in Italy for 15 months, during which time he wrote a book titled “The World From Italy – Football, Food, and Politics,” which was released in 2001.
In 2002, Negus returned to ABC to moderate a pre-election panel and audience discussion program called “Australia Talks,” before hosting George Negu Tonight for three years, addressing “trends and issues with an Australia-wide team of reporters and producers.” The show was canceled in November 2004 due to changes in the broadcaster’s regional financing.
Negus went on to present Dateline on the SBS network in 2005. In this capacity, he established himself as one of Australia’s most renowned journalists. He began anchoring 6.30 with George Negu on Network Ten in 2011 after becoming a regular on Ten’s evening news program The 7PM Project, produced by Roving Enterprises.
George Negus’s Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.