Monte Dwyer is an Australian TV personality and author, best known as the weatherman who pioneered the traveling weatherman blueprint for Channel Nine's Today

Today (Australian TV program)

Today and Weekend Today are Australian breakfast television programmes, the show is often referred to as The Today Show. The show has been broadcast live by the Nine Network each morning since 1982...

 Show during the 1990s.

Early life

Monte Dwyer was born in Newcastle, Australia on 21 July 1958, and educated in and around Lake Macquarie

Lake Macquarie

The City of Lake Macquarie is a Local Government Area in New South Wales, Australia, approximately north of Sydney. It is immediately adjacent to the city of Newcastle and was proclaimed as a city from 7 September 1984.-The City of Lake Macquarie:...

. After leaving school, he trained as a psychiatric nurse at Morisset Hospital, then began traveling and worked variously as a professional fisherman, fashion model, foreign aid worker abroad and hospitality industry journeyman.

Arts and media career

In the late 1980s, Dwyer trained in Theatre Arts in Darwin

Darwin, Northern Territory

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, Northern Territory

Northern Territory

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 under Gunduz Kalic

Gunduz Kalic

Gunduz Kalic is a theatre director, acting coach and actor especially interested in the renewal of theatre as popular gathering. Awarded the title Professor of Theatre by Bath Spa University, UK where he worked until late 2008, Kalic's career has centred on play based actor training, theatre for...

, then began presenting the weather on the local ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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 TV station, gaining notoriety for his theatrical presentations which included singing, rapping and race-calling the weather. During this time, he was a columnist for the NT News and hosted various Darwin ABC Radio programs, including Breakfast, Drive & Afternoons.

In 1991 he moved to Sydney and became the weatherman on Today

Today (Australian TV program)

Today and Weekend Today are Australian breakfast television programmes, the show is often referred to as The Today Show. The show has been broadcast live by the Nine Network each morning since 1982...

on Channel Nine

Nine Network

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. He left in 2002.

In 2007 Dwyer produced content for Charles Wooley

Charles Wooley

Charles Wooley is an Australian journalist, reporter and writer, who reported for Channel Nine's 60 Minutes.At the age of 16 Wooley moved to Hobart where he gained an honours degree in history from the University of Tasmania. While he was studying he developed his journalistic skills by editing...

's radio program Across Australia while travelling around Australia in a motorhome

Motorhome

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. In 2008, he was in one season of Postcards From the Bush for Channel Seven

Seven Network

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's Sunrise

Sunrise (TV program)

Sunrise is an Australian breakfast television program, broadcast on the Seven Network. On weekdays the programme follows Seven Early News, and runs from 6am through to 9am.-History:...

.

After leaving the program, Dwyer began to produce video stories and travelogues for clients including Tourism Australia

Tourism Australia

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 and Australia Network

Australia Network

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. He also self-publishes/produces books & DVDs under the Red in the Centre brand, and turns out the occasional CD of original music.

Literature

Dwyer has written four books:

• Slapped by an Angel, co-author Kym Crosbie (2006, ISBN 9780646470696)
• Red in the Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes (2008, ISBN 9780646492964)
• Red in the Centre: Through a Crooked Lens (2010, ISBN 9780646527406)
• Red in the Centre: Looking for the H Chord (2011, ISBN 9780646553863)

Plays

• I Would've Written, (Australian National Playwright's Conference 1989)
• Son, (Australian National Playwright's Conference, 1990