Hon. Mary Delahunty has high-level experience in Government, Media and the Not-For-Profit Sector
An award winning Journalist and Presenter with ABC TV, Mary served more than 7 years as a Victorian Government Minister in senior portfolios and has a strong record of participation in civic affairs:
• She was Minister for Education from 1999
• Minister for Planning
• Minister for the Arts
• Minister Responsible for the Centenary of Federation
• Minister for Women’s Affairs
• Minister responsible for Commonwealth Games Cultural Program 2006
Prior to entering Parliament, Mary Delahunty established a prominent career in television news, current affairs and the arts; reported Nationally and Internationally for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Commercial television.
- Mary was best known for leading ABC TV News and current affairs programs, the 7.30 Report and Four Corners.
- She received Australia’s most prestigious award in journalism, a Gold Walkley, for her international Four Corners work.
- Mary also hosted the ABC’s national arts program, Sunday Afternoon.
- And was Asia correspondent for the ABC
Before entering politics in 1998, Mary was Managing Director of her own media consultancy company and now continues in business as a Government and Media Relations Consultant most recently with the Superannuation sector, assisting breast cancer research.
Mary is currently reviewing VCAM (Victorian College of the Arts and Music) at Melbourne University.
Today Mary is a Director of several Not-For-Profit Boards,
• Chair, Orchestra Victoria
• Director, Harold Mitchell Foundation, Health/Arts
• Director, Melbourne Recital Centre (Vic Govt)
• Director, Elisabeth Murdoch Sculpture Foundation
• Member, Advisory Board, Centre for Advanced Journalism,
Melbourne University.
Mary has also established a Residential Writer’s Retreat at her farm in regional Victoria, in philanthropic partnership with the Victorian Writer’s Centre.
She will publish her first book later this year Public Life: Private Grief with Publisher Hardie Grant.
