Alison Mau

Alison Mau is a New Zealand television journalist and presenter. She is currently employed at Television New Zealand as permanent backup host for the "Breakfast" programme. Mau is Australian by birth and her parents still live there. She married fellow TVNZ news presenter Simon Dallow in 1996 and the couple have two children.

In her journalism career she has worked for various news organisations in Australia, the United Kingdom, Taiwan (CTS Network) and New Zealand (TVNZ and Prime).

Her first television appearance for TVNZ was in 1994's "Eyewitness" programme. From there she went on to present TV2's "Newsnight" before becoming part of the ONE News reporting team.

Mau began presenting the "Breakfast" programme with Mike Hosking, but after a year she returned to a ONE News presenting role due to the birth of her second child. She and husband Dallow presented the weekend news from 1999 to 2003. After TVNZ changed ONE News to a single presenter format in 2004, she returned to "Breakfast" but left at the end of that year to join Prime Television. She was later made redundant from Prime after the station was taken over by Sky in early 2006.

In 2008 she returned to TVNZ as a backup host for the "Breakfast" programme and has also appeared in other news and current affairs shows.

In her time at TVNZ she has also presented other non-news television programmes such as home and lifestyle show "Home Front".

External links

* [http://www.tvnz.co.nz TVNZ]
* [http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/415391 TVNZ Bio]