“I think Tony Wilson is a rare talent who will definitely go places in the world of media and entertainment”
Elaine Canty, ABC radio
Tony Wilson works as a broadcaster, author and television presenter. He made his name as a keen observer and comic talent on the ABCTV documentary show Race Around the World. More recently, he’s been a panellist on The Einstein Factor and a World Cup correspondent for Santo, Sam and Ed’s Cup Fever.
For six years he co-hosted The Breakfasters program on 3RRR, rising at 5am each day to discuss news, sport, politics, film, television and music. The show’s easy banter and humorous off-the-cuff style was perfect training for Tony’s MC work, and he has become a popular choice for conferences, panels, festivals and dinners. His polished style has also seen him co-host Jon Faine’s Conversation Hour and Lindy Burns’s Drive program on ABC Melbourne 774, as well as appearances with Tony Martin on Triple R and 774 as The Two Tones.
Tony is a successful author himself. His first novel, Players (Text Publishing, 2005), earned him the accolade of SMH ‘Best Young Australian Novelist 2006’. A true satire, Players is a comic novel with a black heart, investigating the very recognisable themes of out-of-control sporting celebrity and the dominating hand of the media. Tony is himself an ex-listed AFL footballer, having spent just a year at Hawthorn in 1992, but now he is equally passionate about round ball football. His ‘conversion’ was captured in his classic sporting memoir Australia United (GSP, 2006), a hilarious, passionate, and sometimes tear-jerking account of his travels around World Cup, Germany, 2006. His follow up novel, Making News (Murdoch Books, 2010), is about a recently retired Socceroos and Premier League star who is lured into a tabloid generated sex scandal. He’s also written five picture books. His latest, The Princess and the Packet of Frozen Peas, was a CBCA Notable Book for 2010.
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Australia United
For those who were lucky enough to be there, Australia United will remind them of a month of magical mayhem. For those who weren't, they'll close the book and start blocking their leave for South Africa 2010.
In one mad month, Australia discovered what the rest of the world already knew. The FIFA World Cup is the greatest sporting event on earth.
Tony Wilson was in Germany for every minute of the Socceroos World Cup roller coaster - from those eight magical minutes against Japan in Kaiserslautern and the Samba showdown with Brazil in Munich, to the dramatic draw with Croatia in Stuttgart and the final catastrophe against Italy back in Kaiserslautern.
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