Mike Bailey Biography – Mike Bailey Wiki
Mike Bailey was an Australian television weather presenter, journalism educator, political aspirant, and football club chairman. He was the longtime presenter of the weekday weather segment of the ABC Sydney edition of the 7.00 pm news bulletin, which is also relayed to major parts of New South Wales. He joined the ABC as a cadet journalist in 1968. He also spent 13 years presenting the weather and, on occasions, the news for Sydney’s Channel 7. He was also a lecturer in radio journalism at Macleay College in Sydney. He was also a noted MC and guest speaker.
Before he joined politics, he discussed the weather on weekday afternoons with Richard Glover on ABC Radio Sydney 702. He mentioned that one of his jobs as a young man was “Savings Sam”, spruiking, among other things, ladies’ underwear outside a Sydney department store. On May 22, 2007, it was announced that he had been approached to stand for Australian Labor Party preselection for the seat of North Sydney to challenge the sitting member, Joe Hockey, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, in the upcoming Australian federal election. He subsequently resigned from ABC. He got an 8.4 percent primary and 4.7 percent two-party swing but fell significantly short.
Later, he became the weather presenter for Nine News Sydney on Fridays and Saturdays and Nine News Afternoon Edition weather on Fridays. When he went on holiday in early 2009, he was told not to return. Having been a lifelong supporter of the Western Suburbs Magpies, Bailey became the Chairman of the Wests Tigers NRL Club (Wests Ashfield Leagues) in 2011, as appointed by the Wests Group stakeholders in the joint venture club. He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in 2020 for his extensive service to the community, a recognition for the genuine consideration he had for those around him. He was raised in the Sydney suburb of Sefton and educated at De La Salle College, Bankstown (1959-1965) and later De La Salle College, Ashfield (1966-67).
Mike Bailey Age
He was born Michael John Bailey in 1950 in Sefton, New South Wales, Australia. He died on June 20, 2021 in Austaralia. He was 71 years old.
Mike Bailey Wife
He was married since 1986 to Helena Bailey, who is a former presenter of the Seven Network’s Romper Room.
Mike Bailey Children
With his wife, they had four children, one of them a son, known as Michael.
Mike Bailey Death
Bailey died on June 20, 2021, from a stroke after three weeks in a coma. Wests Tigers issued a statement that paid tribute to the club’s former chairman. “Wests Tigers are deeply saddened by the passing of former Director and Chairman Mike Bailey OAM, who passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on Sunday, 20th June.”
ABC TV host Joe O’Brien joined the Twitter tributes, writing “Mike Bailey was a down to earth, warm, funny guy. You can still tell by that cheeky glint in his eye. Sad to hear he has passed away.”
Mike Bailey Cause of Death
The cause of his death was a stroke after being in a coma for three weeks.
