Alison Mau

Alison Mau (born 14 February 1965), known professionally as Ali Mau, is an Australian-born New Zealand journalist and broadcaster. She is a former television news anchor, former co-host of the TVNZ current affairs show Seven Sharp, former co-presenter of the consumer affairs show Fair Go, and former co-host of TVNZ Breakfast programme. Mau is a former talkback radio host on RadioLIVE, a nationwide Auckland-based New Zealand talkback, news and sport radio network owned and operated by MediaWorks New Zealand.

Mau is currently an Op-ed columnist at The Sunday Star-Times weekend newspaper, and a contributor on the Stuff news website.

Mau currently leads a team of journalists at Stuff in the recently launched 2018 national #metoonz investigation into sexual harassment in New Zealand, supported by Stuff. The #metoonz project - which references the celebrity #metoo social movement - is for people who wanted to have a voice but didn't know where to go. Editorial Director Mark Stevens said a team of journalists would help investigate the potential stories that emerged, and journalists Cecile Meier and Michelle Duff will work closely with Mau. Mau confirmed to Radio New Zealand Mediawatch that she will respond to every person who gets in touch before any individual's stories are passed on to journalists.

Early life Mau was born in Melbourne in 1965 to D'arcy Lee Mau, a journalist and Maureen Prosser Mau. Her parent's met in Prosser's native England. Mau has an older sister and a younger sister. She returned to Australia in 1993 but moved to New Zealand soon after, where she was soon employed by TVNZ.

In 2014, Mau commenced a radio talkback host career at RadioLIVE.

In December 2017, Mau announced her departure from her daily RadioLIVE Drive radio show in February 2018. Mau said she had been "incredibly fortunate" to spend four years at the station learning the radio business. "Having spent my early career in print journalism – then more than 20 years in television – radio was a new frontier for me. I leave with a store of cross-platform skills I could only have dreamed of back then," Mau said. She would not be drawn on her plans for 2018, saying "it's a bit too early to make those details public". Stuff's Editorial Director Mark Stevens said a team of journalists would help investigate the potential stories that emerged, and journalists Cecile Meier and Michelle Duff will work closely with Ms Mau. In 2010, following rumours of a same-sex relationship, she stated publicly that she is bisexual. She became engaged to Karleen Edmonds in February 2012.

Publications First Lady: From Boyhood to Womanhood: The Incredible Story of New Zealand's Sex-change Pioneer Liz Roberts, Upstart Press Ltd, Bookwire GmbH, London, 2015, No Words for This, 2025,