Liam Bartlett Bio
Liam Bartlett is an Australian journalist and reporter, best known for his career in radio and television. He was born in Perth, Western Australia, Europe.
Bartlett had a six-year stint with ABC radio station 720 ABC Perth, presenting the morning program. He had previously worked for STW 9 in Perth and GWN in Bunbury as a news anchor and reporter. He worked for a time at 3SR in Shepparton in Victoria.
While working on Perth radio stations, Bartlett was also a columnist for the News Corporation newspaper The Sunday Times. He appeared on television on The 7.30 Report, ABC TV and the Nine Network Australia presenting both current affairs and news.
Bartlett was a delegate to the Australian Constitutional Convention 1998. He was an elected delegate and had contested the poll as an independent candidate. Bartlett won a Churchill Fellowship to study investigative journalism in 2002. He spent three months in the United States and the United Kingdom.
He left Perth radio station 6PR in July 2006, after only nine weeks on air to join 60 Minutes, where he would present until 2012, before returning as from the 2015 season.
As of his awards, Bartlett has won three international and two national awards for reporting, including New York Festival awards for both TV and Radio and the Brigitte Bardot Award for TV. In addition, he has been awarded four separate state-based AJA Awards for investigative reports and feature writing.
Liam Bartlett Eyes
Check out the picture below of Liam Bartlette. He has dark-brown eyes which have been complemented mostly by the guests he interviews.
Liam Bartlett Wife
Bartlett is married to Claire and they have three children. The family resides in Perth.
Liam Bartlett 60 Minutes
Reporter Liam Bartlett officially re-joined 60 Minutes in January 2016. A Bachelor of Economics from the University of Western Australia, Bartlett has spent more than 30 years working in Australian media. During that time he has enjoyed a series of postings, as a journalist and public broadcaster, across all three major platforms – television, radio, and print.
His roles have included news anchor at Channel Nine in Perth, hosting the state-based 7.30 Report on ABC TV, reporting from the Melbourne bureau of ‘A Current Affair’, a columnist and feature writer for News Limited through the Sunday Times and the host of prime-time talkback shifts on Radio 6PR and 720 ABC Perth.
He is best known however to national audiences as the journalist who was asked to join 60 Minutes in July 2006 – following the death of stalwart Richard Carlton.
His first assignment was in 2006 at the Israeli-Hezbollah war and after dodging incoming Katyusha rockets in Israel and being bombed in Beirut, the baptism of fire was complete. Since then he has covered war zones in Iraq, Afghanistan, South Ossetia, and Syria. In less risky parts of the world, he has been tear-gassed on the West Bank, stoned by a mob in Nigeria and lost in the middle of the Congo.
He has felt many emotions, including extreme claustrophobia in the tunnels of Gaza, extreme discomfort being licked by a large Alaskan black bear and extremely bruised after a serious car crash in Siberia.
Liam Bartlett Be Our Guest
60 Minutes Australia’s legendary Liam Bartlett sings Be Our Guest. Join him on Facebook on this URL to watch him do the full song
Liam Bartlett Contact Details
To contact Liam Bartlette, follow him on social media. This will provide an opportunity to share your opinion on a variety of topics with the Australian award-winning journalist. See his Twitter below as he is more active there than in any other platform.
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