Liam Bartlett is an award winning journalist who began his career more than twenty years ago with Channel Nine in Perth.
Backed by a Degree in Economics and later a Churchill Fellowship, Liam has enjoyed a highly successful multi - media career involving radio, newspapers and TV over more than 25 years.
He launched STW 9’s Lateline programme, hosted the ABC’s 7.30 Report, and later joined the Nine Network’s A Current Affair in Melbourne.
In 1996, he returned to Perth to host Radio 6PR’s afternoon show and 12 months later he was awarded Best Current Affairs Commentator in Australia. For more than seven years, from 1998 to 2006 Liam hosted the flagship morning current affairs program on 720 ABC Perth and state-wide through the ABC’s regional network. Under his stewardship, it became the only Morning Program in the ABC’s Australian network to consistently out-rate its commercial opposition.
Before moving to Nine in Sydney, Liam was also a long time columnist and journalist for News Ltd’s The Sunday Times.
Over the years, Liam’s reporting has led to the removal of disgraced public officials and the instigation of various parliamentary and departmental enquiries in the areas of Health, Emergency Services, Public Sector Standards and Treasury. It has also seen a state ombudsman sacked, a 30 year suspect finally named as a murderer in the Coroner’s Court, and a Minister lose her portfolio only two weeks into the job.
More than 60-years-ago, three Japanese midget subs made a daring wartime raid on Sydney — two were captured but the third disappeared, seemingly forever. Liam revealed how a knockabout group of scuba divers from Sydney’s northern beaches found the missing sub.
Liam has been awarded prizes from the Australian Journalists Association no less than five times and remains the first ABC journalist to have taken out a grand prize at the annual New York International Radio Awards.
Liam was appointed to Australia’s most successful current affairs program 60 Minutes in 2006, with his first story reporting from Beirut during the Hezbollah war. Since then, some of his most memorable moments include; busting Nigerian scammers in Lagos, being licked by wolves, confronting a Russian assassin, playing baseball with Billy Crystal, archery with the Prime Minister of Bhutan and getting up close and personal with wild bears in Alaska.
