Alison Mau 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.
20 Facts About Alison Mau
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Alison Mau is currently an Op-ed columnist at The Sunday Star-Times weekend newspaper, and a contributor on the Stuff news website.
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Alison 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.
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Alison Mau moved to London in 1990 and presented and reported for World Business Report on BBC World.
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Alison Mau returned to Australia in 1993 but moved to New Zealand soon after, where she was employed by TVNZ.
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Alison Mau returned to ONE News after the birth of her second child and, from 1999 to 2003, presented the weekend news alongside husband Simon Dallow.
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Alison Mau 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.
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Alison Mau was made redundant from Prime when the station was taken over by Sky in early 2006 and returned to TVNZ in 2008.
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In 2013, she moved to co-host the nightly current affairs programme Seven Sharp; in an interview given shortly after she left that programme, Alison Mau stated that when she was recruited for Seven Sharp, the programme pitched to her was quite different from the one that eventuated.
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Alison Mau 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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In 2014, Alison Mau commenced a radio talkback host career at RadioLIVE.
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Alison Mau began the four-year gig at talkback station RadioLIVE, initially in an early afternoon co-host slot with Willie Jackson.
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Alison Mau then moved to host the daily RadioLive Drive radio show.
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In December 2017, Alison Mau announced her departure from her daily RadioLIVE Drive radio show in February 2018.
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Alison Mau said she had been "incredibly fortunate" to spend four years at the station learning the radio business.
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Alison Mau is currently an Op-ed columnist at The Sunday Star-Times weekend newspaper, and she is contributor on the Stuff.
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Alison Mau says it is an opportunity for Kiwis - mainly women, but men too - to bring their tormentors to account.
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Alison 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.
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Alison Mau met Simon Dallow on a Contiki Tours tour in Europe in 1989.
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Alison Mau became engaged to Karleen Edmonds in February 2012.