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Steve Vizard
Stephen William Vizard (born 6 March 1956) is an Australian television and radio presenter, producer, writer, lawyer and businessman. He is a research professor at Monash University and the University of Adelaide.
Vizard has written popular and academic books on topics ranging from Australia's population policy to national myths, including Nation, Memory, Myth. He has also written for theatre, including the opera Banquet of Secrets, the musical Vigil, and The Last Man Standing, the Melbourne Theatre Company's centenary Gallipoli production.
He has written for and produced various Logie and AFI award-winning television shows—from Fast Forward to Kangaroo Palace—and hosted his own five-night-a-week national tonight show, Tonight Live with Steve Vizard, for which he was three times nominated and won a Gold Logie in 1991. On radio, he has broadcast on the Austereo, Fairfax and Macquarie networks, and in 2011 was nominated for Best Talkback Presenter in Australia.
Vizard founded one of Australia’s largest independent production houses, Artist Services, which was subsequently sold to ITV. He has been president of the National Gallery of Victoria and chairman of the Victorian Major Events Company, which secured events such as the World Swimming Championships (FINA World Aquatics Championships), World Cycling Championships (UCI Road World Championships), World Gymnastics Championships (World Artistic Gymnastics Championships), World Cup Soccer (FIFA World Cup), International Rugby Tests, Australian Fashion Week, the Australian Film Institute Awards (AACTA Awards), and devised the annual cultural exhibition programme Melbourne Winter Masterpieces. He has appeared on the cover of Time and Rolling Stone; was an elected representative to the 1998 Australian Constitutional Convention; and was Father of the Year in 2001.
Vizard was embroiled in three highly publicised legal proceedings, resulting in civil penalties in 2005 for breaching directors' duties.
Vizard was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 6 March 1956, the son of Godfrey Lancelot Pitt Vizard and June Purtell. He grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn and was educated at Hawthorn West Primary School and Carey Baptist Grammar School. His father, Godfrey, had been a patrol officer in Papua New Guinea in the early 1950s and had been involved in exploring and mapping the uncharted Gulf region around Kerema, including making first contact with native Kukukuku. As a teenager, Vizard was raised on a bush property in the semi-rural suburb of Warrandyte.
After finishing high school in 1973, Vizard won a scholarship to study law and arts (philosophy), at the University of Melbourne, where he resided at Whitley College and later St Mary's College, and graduated in 1980. From 1981 to 1986, he practised law as a partner in a Melbourne law firm and until 1988 worked as an international commercial negotiator for multinational RTZ (Rio Tinto Zinc), mainly in Britain and Germany.
In 1976, while at Melbourne University, Vizard appeared in the Archi (Architects') Revue and the following year he and fellow university students established, wrote and produced the university's inaugural Le Law Revue. After being spotted in the revue, Vizard wrote material for the inner Melbourne comedy scene. Between 1976 and 1982, while still studying at Melbourne University, Vizard wrote and performed in over a dozen productions, working at such theatres and cabarets as The Last Laugh and the Flying Trapeze with a variety of local performers including Rod Quantock, Wendy Harmer, Glenn Robbins, Peter Moon and Paul Grabowsky, who would later work with Vizard as the band leader on his Tonight Live show.
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Steve Vizard
Stephen William Vizard (born 6 March 1956) is an Australian television and radio presenter, producer, writer, lawyer and businessman. He is a research professor at Monash University and the University of Adelaide.
Vizard has written popular and academic books on topics ranging from Australia's population policy to national myths, including Nation, Memory, Myth. He has also written for theatre, including the opera Banquet of Secrets, the musical Vigil, and The Last Man Standing, the Melbourne Theatre Company's centenary Gallipoli production.
He has written for and produced various Logie and AFI award-winning television shows—from Fast Forward to Kangaroo Palace—and hosted his own five-night-a-week national tonight show, Tonight Live with Steve Vizard, for which he was three times nominated and won a Gold Logie in 1991. On radio, he has broadcast on the Austereo, Fairfax and Macquarie networks, and in 2011 was nominated for Best Talkback Presenter in Australia.
Vizard founded one of Australia’s largest independent production houses, Artist Services, which was subsequently sold to ITV. He has been president of the National Gallery of Victoria and chairman of the Victorian Major Events Company, which secured events such as the World Swimming Championships (FINA World Aquatics Championships), World Cycling Championships (UCI Road World Championships), World Gymnastics Championships (World Artistic Gymnastics Championships), World Cup Soccer (FIFA World Cup), International Rugby Tests, Australian Fashion Week, the Australian Film Institute Awards (AACTA Awards), and devised the annual cultural exhibition programme Melbourne Winter Masterpieces. He has appeared on the cover of Time and Rolling Stone; was an elected representative to the 1998 Australian Constitutional Convention; and was Father of the Year in 2001.
Vizard was embroiled in three highly publicised legal proceedings, resulting in civil penalties in 2005 for breaching directors' duties.
Vizard was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 6 March 1956, the son of Godfrey Lancelot Pitt Vizard and June Purtell. He grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn and was educated at Hawthorn West Primary School and Carey Baptist Grammar School. His father, Godfrey, had been a patrol officer in Papua New Guinea in the early 1950s and had been involved in exploring and mapping the uncharted Gulf region around Kerema, including making first contact with native Kukukuku. As a teenager, Vizard was raised on a bush property in the semi-rural suburb of Warrandyte.
After finishing high school in 1973, Vizard won a scholarship to study law and arts (philosophy), at the University of Melbourne, where he resided at Whitley College and later St Mary's College, and graduated in 1980. From 1981 to 1986, he practised law as a partner in a Melbourne law firm and until 1988 worked as an international commercial negotiator for multinational RTZ (Rio Tinto Zinc), mainly in Britain and Germany.
In 1976, while at Melbourne University, Vizard appeared in the Archi (Architects') Revue and the following year he and fellow university students established, wrote and produced the university's inaugural Le Law Revue. After being spotted in the revue, Vizard wrote material for the inner Melbourne comedy scene. Between 1976 and 1982, while still studying at Melbourne University, Vizard wrote and performed in over a dozen productions, working at such theatres and cabarets as The Last Laugh and the Flying Trapeze with a variety of local performers including Rod Quantock, Wendy Harmer, Glenn Robbins, Peter Moon and Paul Grabowsky, who would later work with Vizard as the band leader on his Tonight Live show.
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