Mary Kostakidis was born on 1954 and is an Australian journalist.
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30 Facts About Mary Kostakidis
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Mary Kostakidis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece and migrated to Australia with her family two years later.
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Mary Kostakidis was a founding member and first President of the University's Greek Society.
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Mary Kostakidis was awarded a post-graduate scholarship to study at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.
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Mary Kostakidis has hosted programmes on ABC Radio stations 2BL and Classic FM.
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Mary Kostakidis acted in a children's television series called Five Times Dizzy in 1986 with Rebekah Elmaloglou.
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Mary Kostakidis has appeared in the movies Jindabyne and Look Both Ways as a newsreader.
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Mary Kostakidis was a member of the management team that set up and developed SBS Television in 1980 and presented its flagship World News for 20 years, resigning in 2007.
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Mary Kostakidis has served as a member of the Fred Hollows Foundation Board, the Sydney Theatre Board, the National Library of Australia Council, the ResMed Foundation Board, the Advisory Panel of the Sydney Peace Foundation, University of Sydney, the Freilich Foundation, the Australian National University and The Privacy Foundation.
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In 2009, Mary Kostakidis served on the National Human Rights Consultation Committee chaired by Frank Brennan.
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Mary Kostakidis has been an active member of the Kazantzaki society.
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Mary Kostakidis has served as an Ambassador for Beyond Blue and was a member of the Drug and Alcohol Council, the Breast Cancer Council Advisory Committee and the Constitutional Centenary Foundation.
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In 1989, Mary Kostakidis hosted the Ethnic Business Awards, which is a national business award highlighting migrant and Indigenous excellence in business.
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Mary Kostakidis joined SBS as part of the original management team in September 1980 and worked to set up the Subtitling Unit where she helped to develop its policy and training programme and recruited linguists.
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Mary Kostakidis became Director of Programme Preparation where she was involved in developing policies of censorship and classification and the children's programming policy.
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Mary Kostakidis was moved from subtitling to help create and to host SBS's flagship evening news service, where her more diverse background and multilingual capabilities changed the face of the organisation.
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Mary Kostakidis began reading SBS's weekend news bulletins in 1986 and in 1988 became SBS Television's weeknight news presenter.
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Mary Kostakidis was described as an important figure at SBS for 20 years "because she was an intelligent professional with a warm personality who capably took viewers through the world events of the day".
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Mary Kostakidis's guests included Paul Keating, John Laws, Cheryl Kernot, Imran Khan, Betty Friedan and Don Dunstan.
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On 5 October 2007, Mary Kostakidis lodged a statement of claim in the Federal Court of Australia, alleging a breach of contract and contravention of the Trade Practices Act 1975 on the part of SBS.
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Mary Kostakidis alleged that she had been bullied by fellow presenter Stan Grant and had been "intimidated and bullied" by SBS managing director Shaun Brown, who was striving for SBS to reach a wider audience and to increase revenue.
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Mary Kostakidis was represented in court by prominent Melbourne lawyer, Julian Burnside.
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On 23 November 2007, SBS and Mary Kostakidis were reported to have reached an "amicable settlement".
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Mary Kostakidis has a long-standing interest in social justice and continues to engage in public discourse, delivering lectures, chairing public forums and contributing editorial opinion articles in the mainstream press and independent online media.
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Mary Kostakidis described WikiLeaks as an "ingenious website that has shifted the power balance between citizen and the state by exposing what governments really get up to in our name".
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Mary Kostakidis has criticised Assange's extradition trial in the UK and the media for a lack of interest in the case.
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