Peter Holland
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Peter Holland has been a broadcaster, interviewer, newsreader, lecturer and editor, from Perth, Western Australia.
He worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in radio and television news from 1966 to 1998 when he moved to Channel Nine to read the television news.
In the 1984 federal election he unsuccessfully ran for the seat of Forrest for the Australian Labor Party.[1]
In 1995, he won the Western Australian Citizen Of The Year (community services) award. He won the Premier's Book Award in 1994 for an anthology of Western Australian writing.
In 2004, Peter left his role with local television station STW-9 and took up a full time teaching post with Edith Cowan University, having been a part-time member of staff since 2001[2]. Since 2005, he has been coordinator of the Graduate Diploma of Broadcasting course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) at the Edith Cowan University campus.[3]
Holland currently resides in the Perth Hills where he has lived since 1972.
[edit] References
- ^ Journalists in Parliament. crikey.com (27 February 2007). Retrieved on 2007-03-11.
- ^ ECU Student News. Edith Cowan University Corporate Communications (26 November 2003). Retrieved on 2007-03-11.
- ^ WAAPA produces broadcasting stars. Edith Cowan University Communications Programme (28 April 2006). Retrieved on 2007-03-11.
[edit] Works
- As Interviewer - in - Talking theatre. (1993) Perth, W.A : PICA Press, ISBN 1875386211. "This small volume consists of interviews first broadcast on the ABC Radio programme `Peter Holland's Sunday' April to August 1993 on 720 6WF" included: Bill Dunstone, Andrew Ross, Alan Belcher, Angela Chaplin, Barry Moreland, Edgar Metcalfe, David Britton, David Hough, David Williams, Geoff Kelso and Ray Omodei.
- As editor -(1993) Summer shorts : stories-poems-articles-images, South Fremantle, W.A : Fremantle Arts Centre Press. ISBN 1863680659
- As editor - with Barbara Holland (1994) Summer shorts : stories-poems-articles-images. 2 , South Fremantle, W.A : Fremantle Arts Centre Press. ISBN 1863681000
- With - Liz Byrski. (1996) The grapevine : quick and tasty cookbook . South Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press. ISBN 1863681744
