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About Athol Meyer
- Athol Yardley Meyer (28 November 1940 – 31 July 1998) was an Australian journalist and, later, politician. He was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, but moved to Sydney to work at the ABC.
- He was later posted to Hobart, Tasmania.
- Following work and private travel in the UK and mainland Europe in the mid 1960s, Meyer was posted as an ABC foreign correspondent to Port Moresby (1968-1970) and Kuala Lumpur (1970-72).
- During his posting in KL, Meyer undertook several assignments in Vietnam, working closely with ABC cameraman Willie Phua (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkck39jSV-M) .
- Meyer and Phua covered preparations for a new Tet offensive and came under fire in the central highlands.
- In 1986 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent member for Huon.
- He served as Chair of Committees from 1993 to 1996.
- He resigned from the Legislative Council in 1996 having been diagnosed with cancer, to which he succumbed in 1998 at Little Swanport.
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