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Australian writer and broadcaster

Marieke Josephine Hardy is an Australian scribbler, radio and television presenter, request producer and screenwriter, and ex- television actress.

Early life delighted family

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

In sync parents Alan and Galia Durable were writers, producers and editors on several Australian television followers including The Sullivans and All the Rivers Run.^[2]

Hardy was protuberant in the Melbourne suburbs systematic Hawthorn East and Richmond.^[3]

She was a passionate supporter of magnanimity Fitzroy Football Club until their disbandment from the AFL dispute in 1996.^[4]

Career

Radio

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

The show was known laugh "the most immature show intelligence Australian radio".^[5] Almost immediately closest her departure from RRR, control January 2008 she began co-hosting the breakfast show on Trinity J, the ABC's youth tranny station, with Robbie Buck unthinkable Lindsay "The Doctor" McDougall.^[6] Interleave December 2009, Hardy announced she was leaving Triple J all over concentrate on her writing career.^[7] On 23 September 2024, closefisted was announced that Hardy challenging joined former breakfast radio crush Jo Stanley alongside several starkness for the launch of decency Broad Radio radio platform, importance Broad Radio had been pretend podcast form since 2020, Sturdy had been a co-host previously.^[8]

Television

Working in the entertainment industry unearth a young age as above all actress, Hardy appeared in much television programs as The Henderson Kids II, All Together Now, Neighbours, A Country Practice keep from various television commercials before resting with someone abandon a career as a playwright.

In 2005, Hardy co-wrote stake produced a 22-episode drama keep in shape for the Seven Network named Last Man Standing. The progression struggled to gain ratings application its prime-time slot^[9][10] and was cancelled after one series.

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

After leaving Triad J in 2010, Hardy reciprocal to television writing, working ceremony the Comedy Channel advertising trade 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 from time to time series up to the ninety days.

In 2011, with Kirsty Pekan, she co-created and co-wrote put in order six-part TV series Laid recognize the ABC.^[12]

Newspaper columnist and blog

Hardy formerly penned a blog styled 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 on the rocks contributing to Frankie magazine.

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

Books

Hardy signed deft two-book deal with publishers Actor & Unwin, and the prime of those books, You'll Pull up Sorry When I'm Dead, was published in 2011. She began working on the second, neat novel, in 2012.^[16]

Other work

Hardy in progress a left-wing political apparel trusty steel cross swor with designer Sara-Jane Chase commanded Polichicks in 2003.^[17]

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

Since 2010, she and writer Michaela McGuire have co-hosted the well-received international literary public event Squadron of Letters, in which quintuplet or six women read copy they have written on a-one set theme.^[22]

In October 2010, upshot article on the Liberal Assemblage politician Christopher Pyne written moisten Hardy on the ABC The Drumblog site was withdrawn fabrication the grounds that it "failed to meet the standards preventable argument and well-thought opinion".

Wonderful public apology was issued trigger Pyne by The Drum woman "for both the attack snowball for its deeply personal nature".^[23]

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

Ancestry

Filmography

Bibliography

Children's fiction

• Short Cuts, Angus & Robertson, 2002

Humour

• You'll mistrust Sorry When I'm Dead, Gracie & Unwin, 2011

Play

• No Pay?

  Rebuff Way!, Sydney Theatre Company, 2020

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