Alison Mau Biography
Alison Mau is a journalist and broadcaster from New Zealand who was born in Australia. Mau presently writes an opinion column for The Sunday Star-Times weekend newspaper and contributes to the Stuff news website.
How old is Alison Mau? – Age
She is 58 years old as of 14 February 2023. She was born in 1965 in Melbourne, Australia.
Alison Mau Husband
In 1989, Mau met Simon Dallow on a Contiki Tours journey in Europe. They met while working at TVNZ in 1994 and married in 1996. In 2009, the couple divorced. They have two kids. Following rumors of a same-sex romance, she declared publicly in 2010 that she is bisexual. In February 2012, she married Karleen Edmonds.
Alison Mau Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Alison Mau Breakfast
Mau began anchoring the Breakfast programme with Mike Hosking after reporting for ONE News. She returned to ONE News after the birth of her second child and co-hosted the weekend news with husband Simon Dallow from 1999 to 2003. She returned to Breakfast in 2004, but resigned at the end of the year to work with former TVNZ presenter Paul Holmes at rival network Prime Television. She was laid off from Prime when the channel was bought out by Sky in early 2006, and she returned to TVNZ in 2008.
Mau returned to TVNZ as a Breakfast back-up host and also participated in other news, non-news, and current affairs shows, including the home and lifestyle show Home Front, which she co-hosted with future Dunedin mayor Dave Cull.
Alison Mau The Sunday Star-Times
Mau is presently an Op-ed columnist for The Sunday Star-Times weekend newspaper, as well as a contributor to Fairfax Digital’s Stuff.co.nz news portal website, which is published by Fairfax New Zealand Ltd.
Alison Mau Stuff
She writes for the Fairfax Digital news portal website Stuff.co.nz, which is owned by Fairfax New Zealand Ltd. Mau is presently leading a team of Stuff journalists researching sexual harassment in New Zealand. Stuff funded Mau’s 2018 nationwide #metoonz investigation into sexual harassment. She sees it as an opportunity for Kiwis – primarily women, but also men – to hold their tormentors accountable. The #metoonz project, which is a play on the celebrity #metoo social movement, is for folks who wanted to speak up but didn’t know where to start.
She believed that the size of New Zealand has stifled the #metoo movement, with women and m
en fearful of losing their jobs or careers in our smaller industry. Stuff’s Editorial Director Mark Stevens stated that a team of journalists will assist in investigating the possible stories that have developed, and journalists Cecile Meier and Michelle Duff will collaborate closely with Ms Mau. Before any individual’s story is handed on to media, Mau affirmed to Radio New Zealand Mediawatch that she will react to everyone who contacts her.
Alison Mau RadioLIVE
Mau began her radio talkback show career at RadioLIVE in 2014. She began her four-year tenure at RadioLIVE, originally as an early afternoon co-host with Willie Jackson. She later became the host of the daily RadioLive Drive radio show. During her stint with RadioLIVE, Mau also filled in as a host on The Paul Henry Show on TV3, which was aired on RadioLIVE and across several platforms in 2014.
Mau announced her departure from her daily RadioLIVE Drive radio show in February 2018 in December 2017. Mau described her four years at the station as “incredibly fortunate” in terms of understanding the radio business.
Alison Mau Career
Mau’s first reporting assignment, at the age of 18, was for the Warracknabeal Herald in northern Victoria. The Melbourne Herald employed her in 1984. In 1990, she relocated to London and began presenting and reporting for BBC World’s World Business Report. She returned to Australia in 1993, but soon went to New Zealand, where she was hired by TVNZ.
Her first television appearance was on the business news show Made in New Zealand. Mau would eventually host late-night current affairs shows like as Eyewitness News and Newsnight, which she co-hosted with Marcus Lush and her future husband Simon Dallow.
In 2013, she went to co-host the nightly current affairs show Seven Sharp; in an interview shortly after leaving that show, Mau noted that when she was hired for Seven Sharp, the program presented to her was very different from the one that was aired. She also stated that if she had known what the program would be like, she would “never have left the job at Fair Go.”