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Australia's first female TV newsreader, MELODY ILIFFE read the news on QTQ-9 Brisbane from the early 1960s. This is disputed by some other networks and other cities, but she is the first to read regularly on a mainstream city TV channel. Most other cities didn't get a female TV newsreader until the 70s.
Australia's first female TV newsreader, MELODY ILIFFE read the news on QTQ-9 Brisbane from the early 1960s. This is disputed by some other networks and other cities, but she is the first to read regularly on a mainstream city TV channel. Most other cities didn't get a female TV newsreader until the 70s.
