Nuala Hafner
{{Short description|Australian media personality and television presenter}}
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Nuala Hafner is an Australian media personality of Ghanaian descent, best known as a newsreader, TV host/presenter, weather presenter and journalist. She is also a psychologist.
Early life and education
Hafner was born in London, England, to Ghanaian-born Australian Dorinda Hafner. Her parents met in England, where her father, Julian, was a psychiatrist, and migrated to Adelaide in 1977, where Nuala was raised. The couple subsequently split up.{{cite news | last=Penberthy | first=David | title=Out of Africa and into Australia | website=The Advertiser|location=Adelaide | date=16 June 2012 | url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/dorinda-a-life-of-contrasts/news-story/ca4b4919dfd919863fd14184c16c6b4c | access-date=23 December 2021}}
She attended Adelaide's Pembroke School, Adelaide, where she was dux of her year before travelling to the UK and Europe. She taught drama in London till 1995. She completed a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws at Flinders University in 2000 and was admitted to the bar.
Television career
Hafner began her media career at the age of three months when she appeared in an advertisement for baby formula. She also starred in children's program The Book Place, and on Seven Adelaide's lifestyle program Discover.
Hafner joined Seven News Sydney in April 2003.{{cite web | title=Nuala Hafner | website=seven.com.au | date=29 August 2006 | url=http://www.seven.com.au/news/profile_040131_nualahafner | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060829201903/http://www.seven.com.au/news/profile_040131_nualahafner | archive-date=29 August 2006 | url-status=dead | access-date=23 December 2021}} She presented the weather and Canberra bulletins until she left on 22 December 2006 to work overseas, filing reports from Seven's London Bureau.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}} In 2008, she took another role, appearing on Sunrise, Weekend Sunrise and the Seven HD show The NightCap.
In July 2013, Hafner was appointed as Melbourne news presenter for Network Ten's new breakfast show Wake Up hosted in Sydney by Natarsha Belling and James Mathison. By November 2013, the programme lost 50% of its audience share and rated lower than Breakfast, which was axed the year before due to low ratings.Colin Kruger: [http://www.smh.com.au/business/ten-cost-cutting-looks-like-a-silver-lining-20131114-2xiyx.html Ten cost cutting looks like a silver lining], Sydney Morning Herald, 14 November 2013.
Other qualifications and roles
Hafner studied drama at Flinders University and occasionally acts on stage. She continued her studies in psychology during her television career, for which she was awarded the Capstone Prize, and completed a Master of Clinical Psychology.{{cite web | title=Nuala Hafner | website=Onya Soapbox | date=25 September 2021 | url=https://onyasoapbox.com/artists/nuala-hafner/ | access-date=23 December 2021}}{{cite web | title=Nuala Hafner | website=Onya Soapbox | date=26 January 2019 | url=http://onyasoapbox.com/talent/show.php?id=191 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126164619/http://onyasoapbox.com/talent/show.php?id=191 | archive-date=26 January 2019 | url-status=dead | access-date=23 December 2021}}
References
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Category:Australian women television journalists
Category:Mass media people from Adelaide
Category:Australian people of Ghanaian descent
Category:Australian people of English descent
Category:Australian television newsreaders and news presenters
Category:People educated at Pembroke School, Adelaide
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:English emigrants to Australia
Category:Flinders University alumni
Category:Australian women psychologists