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Ron Wilson
Ron Wilson is a 35 year veteran of news and current affairs, more than 28 of them with Network Ten as a journalist and newsreader.
Ron was just four years old when his family arrived in Australia from Northern Ireland, settling first in Victoria. On leaving Geelong Grammar School, he moved to Darwin and studied for a law degree.
Ron's mother was a writer for Crawford Productions in the sixties on shows such as Homicide and Division Four. Eventually the TV bug struck and the law degree was abandoned for a career on the small screen.
Cyclone Tracy struck at Christmas in 1974.
Ron's family was split up in the evacuation and his father remained in Darwin to work with the re-building teams.
Thanks to the Salvos, Ron soon found work with Wollongong radio station 2WL, and then in 1977 it was off to Wagga Wagga to get back into television as a newsreader.
After marriage and an overseas trip, he settled back in Sydney once again, working first for 2SM and then 2UE. Part-time voice over work for Channel Ten led him to join the station full-time in October 1979, initially as a journalist and then as newsreader.
Good Morning Australia secured Ron to present the news for TEN's national breakfast program from 1982 and later as its host with Sandra Sully.
Since 1994, Ron has co-presented Ten's News at Five and welcomed his new co-presenter Deborah Knight to the desk in January 2006.
Ron has been happily married for 28 years and has three children.
As a result of his insight into the operations of the Salvation Army from the receiving end, Ron remains a committed supporter of their work and among other things, has hosted their Red Shield Appeal in Sydney for the last ten years.
Ron is also heavily involved in the Variety Club of Australia and Father Chris Riley's Youth Off The Streets. In the early 1980's, as a result of special reports produced and presented by Ron, Father Riley secured a sponsorship deal to fund his very first farm for street kids.
