User:Bosquet~enwiki/Geoff Raymond

Geoff Raymond enjoyed a successful career in journalism with the Melbourne Herald and in radio at the BBC London before joining the British Colonial Office with a posting in Malaysia. He spent seven years there helping to set up a radio network to combat the communist insurgency. He returned to his birthplace in Melbourne Australia in 1956 where he joined HSV7 on the birth of television in that country. Geoff spent 14 years with HSV as newsreader/reporter and also presenting programmes and sports commentaries. In 1970 he joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation anchoring the national television news in Melbourne until his retirement in 1984. Since then he has been active in many areas including buying and operating a resort-complex in Fiji; and several ventures in Tasmania including a hotel and a stud farm where he and his family bred racehorses and Hereford cattle. That was followed by the restoration of a medieval castle in County Cork in Ireland into a luxury hotel. When this was sold Geoff Raymond and his family moved to England where they now divide their time between their home there in West Sussex and a residence in Deux Sevres in France.