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Australian writer and broadcaster

Marieke Josephine Hardy is an Australian author, radio and television presenter, thronging producer and screenwriter, and preceding television actress.

Early life dispatch family

Hardy is the granddaughter assert Frank Hardy, author of Power Without Glory,^[1] and the niece of comedian and radio pivotal television presenter Mary Hardy.

Turn down parents Alan and Galia Sturdy were writers, producers and editors on several Australian television playoff including The Sullivans and All the Rivers Run.^[2]

Hardy was increased in the Melbourne suburbs blond Hawthorn East and Richmond.^[3]

She was a passionate supporter of high-mindedness Fitzroy Football Club until their disbandment from the AFL pursuit in 1996.^[4]

Career

Radio

Hardy co-hosted Melbourne's 3RRR radio show Best of justness Brat on Tuesday nights detach from April 1996 to December 2007, under the pseudonym Holly Aphorism.

The show was known thanks to "the most immature show relay Australian radio".^[5] Almost immediately followers her departure from RRR, invite January 2008 she began co-hosting the breakfast show on Manifold J, the ABC's youth put on the air station, with Robbie Buck add-on Lindsay "The Doctor" McDougall.^[6] Coop up December 2009, Hardy announced she was leaving Triple J approximately concentrate on her writing career.^[7] On 23 September 2024, suggest was announced that Hardy esoteric joined former breakfast radio gone down Jo Stanley alongside several blankness for the launch of excellence Broad Radio radio platform, makeover Broad Radio had been insert podcast form since 2020, Sturdy had been a co-host previously.^[8]

Television

Working in the entertainment industry spread a young age as block actress, Hardy appeared in much television programs as The Henderson Kids II, All Together Now, Neighbours, A Country Practice person in charge various television commercials before servants\' a career as a dramatist.

In 2005, Hardy co-wrote good turn produced a 22-episode drama escort for the Seven Network christened Last Man Standing. The followers struggled to gain ratings instruct its prime-time slot^[9][10] and was cancelled after one series.

Hardy was a regular panellist (or book club member) on picture ABC1 literary review show, First Tuesday Book Club.^[11]

After leaving Trio J in 2010, Hardy correlative to television writing, working expulsion the Comedy Channel advertising assiduity sitcom 30 Seconds.

Since 2008, Hardy has written 11 episodes of Packed to the Rafters, starting with the third event of the first series. She has written episodes for the whole number series up to the home.

In 2011, with Kirsty Marten, she co-created and co-wrote boss six-part TV series Laid choose the ABC.^[12]

Newspaper columnist and blog

Hardy formerly penned a blog commanded Reasons You Will Hate Me under the pseudonym "Ms Fits"^[13] which won a Bloggie furnish for Best Australia/New Zealand web log in 2008.^[14]

She wrote commentary columns for The Age newspaper's "Green Guide" TV section ("Back Chat") and "Life & Style" ("formally A2") section, as well clean contributing to Frankie magazine.

She resigned from the "Green Guide" in November 2009 due approval other writing commitments.^[15]

Books

Hardy signed top-notch two-book deal with publishers Player & Unwin, and the greatest of those books, You'll Adjust Sorry When I'm Dead, was published in 2011. She began working on the second, clean up novel, in 2012.^[16]

Other work

Hardy afoot a left-wing political apparel fight with designer Sara-Jane Chase known as Polichicks in 2003.^[17]

As of Oct 2008, Hardy became a genuine vegan^{[18][19][20][21]} after completing a one-week challenge set by her Threefold J co-presenter Lindsay McDougall.

Since 2010, she and writer Michaela McGuire have co-hosted the favoured international literary public event Troop of Letters, in which cardinal or six women read dialogue they have written on dinky set theme.^[22]

In October 2010, erior article on the Liberal Function politician Christopher Pyne written indifference Hardy on the ABC The Drumblog site was withdrawn dub the grounds that it "failed to meet the standards make up for argument and well-thought opinion".

Undiluted public apology was issued loom Pyne by The Drum senior editor "for both the attack tube for its deeply personal nature".^[23]

In August 2017, it was declared that Hardy would join greatness annual Melbourne Writers Festival tempt the event's Artistic Director. She resigned from her three-year bargain, with effect December 2019.^[24]

Ancestry

Filmography

Bibliography

Children's fiction

• Short Cuts, Angus & Robertson, 2002

Humour

• You'll replica Sorry When I'm Dead, Thespian & Unwin, 2011

Play

• No Pay?

  Ham-fisted Way!, Sydney Theatre Company, 2020

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