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Alison Mau
Alison Mau (/mɔː/) (born 14 February 1965), known professionally as Ali Mau, is an Australian-born New Zealand journalist and broadcaster. She is a former television news anchor, former co-host of the TVNZ current affairs show Seven Sharp, former co-presenter of the consumer affairs show Fair Go, and former co-host of TVNZ Breakfast programme. Mau is a former talkback radio host on RadioLIVE, a nationwide Auckland-based New Zealand talkback, news and sport radio network owned and operated by MediaWorks New Zealand.
Mau is currently an Op-ed columnist at The Sunday Star-Times weekend newspaper, and a contributor on the Stuff news website.
Mau currently leads a team of journalists at Stuff in the recently launched 2018 national #metoonz investigation into sexual harassment in New Zealand, supported by Stuff. The #metoonz project - which references the celebrity #metoo social movement - is for people who wanted to have a voice but didn't know where to go. Editorial Director Mark Stevens said a team of journalists would help investigate the potential stories that emerged, and journalists Cecile Meier and Michelle Duff will work closely with Mau. Mau confirmed to Radio New Zealand Mediawatch that she will respond to every person who gets in touch before any individual's stories are passed on to journalists.
Born in Melbourne, Mau's first reporting job was for the Warracknabeal Herald in northern Victoria at age 18. In 1984 she was hired by the Melbourne Herald. She moved to London in 1990 and presented and reported for World Business Report on BBC World. She returned to Australia in 1993 but moved to New Zealand soon after, where she was soon employed by TVNZ.
Her first television appearance was on the business-related current affairs show Made in New Zealand. Mau would later present late-night current affairs programming including Eyewitness and Newsnight, the latter of which she presented alongside Marcus Lush and her future husband Simon Dallow.
After a period reporting for ONE News, Mau began presenting the Breakfast programme with Mike Hosking. She returned to ONE News after the birth of her second child and, from 1999 to 2003, presented the weekend news alongside husband Simon Dallow. She returned to Breakfast in 2004 but left at the end of the year to join rival network Prime Television, where she worked with former TVNZ presenter Paul Holmes. She was made redundant from Prime when the station was taken over by Sky in early 2006 and returned to TVNZ in 2008.
Upon her return to TVNZ, Mau worked as a back-up host for Breakfast and also appeared in other news, non-news, and current affairs shows including the home and lifestyle show Home Front, which she presented alongside future Dunedin mayor Dave Cull. In 2010, she became co-host of weekly consumer affairs programme Fair Go.
In 2013, she moved to co-host the nightly current affairs programme Seven Sharp; in an interview given shortly after she left that programme, Mau stated that when she was recruited for Seven Sharp, the programme pitched to her was quite different from the one that eventuated. She also said that had she known what the show would be like, she "never would have left the job at Fair Go".
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Alison Mau
Alison Mau (/mɔː/) (born 14 February 1965), known professionally as Ali Mau, is an Australian-born New Zealand journalist and broadcaster. She is a former television news anchor, former co-host of the TVNZ current affairs show Seven Sharp, former co-presenter of the consumer affairs show Fair Go, and former co-host of TVNZ Breakfast programme. Mau is a former talkback radio host on RadioLIVE, a nationwide Auckland-based New Zealand talkback, news and sport radio network owned and operated by MediaWorks New Zealand.
Mau is currently an Op-ed columnist at The Sunday Star-Times weekend newspaper, and a contributor on the Stuff news website.
Mau currently leads a team of journalists at Stuff in the recently launched 2018 national #metoonz investigation into sexual harassment in New Zealand, supported by Stuff. The #metoonz project - which references the celebrity #metoo social movement - is for people who wanted to have a voice but didn't know where to go. Editorial Director Mark Stevens said a team of journalists would help investigate the potential stories that emerged, and journalists Cecile Meier and Michelle Duff will work closely with Mau. Mau confirmed to Radio New Zealand Mediawatch that she will respond to every person who gets in touch before any individual's stories are passed on to journalists.
Born in Melbourne, Mau's first reporting job was for the Warracknabeal Herald in northern Victoria at age 18. In 1984 she was hired by the Melbourne Herald. She moved to London in 1990 and presented and reported for World Business Report on BBC World. She returned to Australia in 1993 but moved to New Zealand soon after, where she was soon employed by TVNZ.
Her first television appearance was on the business-related current affairs show Made in New Zealand. Mau would later present late-night current affairs programming including Eyewitness and Newsnight, the latter of which she presented alongside Marcus Lush and her future husband Simon Dallow.
After a period reporting for ONE News, Mau began presenting the Breakfast programme with Mike Hosking. She returned to ONE News after the birth of her second child and, from 1999 to 2003, presented the weekend news alongside husband Simon Dallow. She returned to Breakfast in 2004 but left at the end of the year to join rival network Prime Television, where she worked with former TVNZ presenter Paul Holmes. She was made redundant from Prime when the station was taken over by Sky in early 2006 and returned to TVNZ in 2008.
Upon her return to TVNZ, Mau worked as a back-up host for Breakfast and also appeared in other news, non-news, and current affairs shows including the home and lifestyle show Home Front, which she presented alongside future Dunedin mayor Dave Cull. In 2010, she became co-host of weekly consumer affairs programme Fair Go.
In 2013, she moved to co-host the nightly current affairs programme Seven Sharp; in an interview given shortly after she left that programme, Mau stated that when she was recruited for Seven Sharp, the programme pitched to her was quite different from the one that eventuated. She also said that had she known what the show would be like, she "never would have left the job at Fair Go".