Mickie de Stoop

Mickie de Stoop is an Australian former radio and television presenter.

She is credited with helping improve the representation of female journalists on Australian television by hosting daytime current affairs programs in the 1970's that were produced and presented solely by women, including No Man's Land on GTV-9 and Shoulder to Shoulder on ATV-0.

Television Starting as a reporter on No Man's Land when it launched in March 1974, de Stoop succeeded the original host Tanya Halesworth. After the program was moved to another timeslot which producer Robyn Miller later described as "unworkable" and was also challenged by censorship, it was axed in 1976.

De Stoop then hosted a program called Shoulder to Shoulder from 1977 to 1978 on ATV-0 but after the show was forced by management to be a light entertainment program rather than a current affairs program, it too was axed. Her role during the telecast was to do a live cross from the Victorian High Country.

Radio De Stoop has had a successful career as a radio presenter.

Legacy In 2014, entertainment reporter Peter Ford listed de Stoop as being one of five people in the Australian entertainment industry he personally believed to be a national living treasure. Despite describing his choice as "radical" and declaring his friendship with de Stoop, Ford said he named her in his list of five due to her pivotal role in hosting television programs that were presented by and for women which covered issues that weren't usually discussed on television at that time.