Heather Ewart is an Australian award-winning journalist.
She is currently the host of Back Roads.
Heather grew up on a farm in the country Victoria.
Ewart began her profession as a columnist for The Canberra Times.
In a career at ABC spanning four decades, she’s been a senior political reporter for flagship TV and radio news and current affairs programs, and a foreign correspondent posted to London, Washington and Brussels.
She is active on Twitter under the username @heatherewart1.
Who is Heather Ewart husband? Is Barry Cassidy married to Heather Ewart?
Heather Ewart is married to Barry Cassidy.
Barrie Cassidy is an Australian political journalist. He works as a radio and television host, and commentator for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Cassidy was born on March 4, 1950, in Wangaratta, Australia to Bill Cassidy and Myra.
He has five siblings Ron, Bill, Brian, Graham and Pam Cassidy.
Raised in the Victorian town of Chiltern, Cassidy attended Rutherglen High School.
Cassidy began his career as a cadet on the Albury Border Morning Mail in 1969, he moved to the Shepparton News about a year later before being hired as a court reporter for the Melbourne Herald.
Joining the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, he initially covered state politics.
He moved to Canberra to become ABC’s federal political correspondent for radio and television in 1979.
In 1986, Cassidy was approached by the then prime minister, Bob Hawke, to become his personal press secretary. He remained in the job—which he has described as “the most rewarding and interesting period of my life”—until Paul Keating took over the leadership in 1991 following a challenge.
Cassidy moved to Washington DC in 1991 and worked as a correspondent for The Australian before returning to Australia to host the Last Shout and Meet the Press programs on Network Ten.
He returned to ABC to replace Paul Lyneham as host on The 7.30 Report before he was sent to Brussels as a European correspondent.
Cassidy was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 Quill Awards presented by the Melbourne Press Club on 15 March 2019. In accepting the award, he revealed his intention to retire from Insiders on June 9, after the Australian federal election.
He was the long-running host of the Sunday morning political commentary program Insiders from 2001 to 2019, and in 2020 took over as the host of the long-form interview program One Plus One on ABC.
Barrie Cassidy and Heather Ewart have been married for years and together they share two children.