Local residents are being encouraged to celebrate life in our region this Australia Day by joining in the Australia Day celebrations in Narromine on Tuesday January 26.
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This year Narromine will welcome Robyn Moore as its 2016 Australia Day Ambassador.
Robyn's voice has been heard in almost every home in Australia over the past 40-plus years however, no-one will know her name.
Her voice is heard in our best known TV and radio commercials like Spray'n Wipe and she created all female voices in Australia's longest-running radio comedy "How Green Was My Cactus". This political satire has been on radio for 28 years (over 6000 episodes).
Robyn has also enchanted children as the voice behind Australia's most mischievous cartoon character "Blinky Bill" (seen in 70 countries).
She is now inspiring conference audiences around Australia and beyond and is Australia's most in-demand female speaker. Her past and current workload has been and continues to be phenomenal, covering almost all facets of the media and entertainment industries.
One of Robyn's favourite assignments each year is being an Australia Day Ambassador. She considers it a wonderful privilege to share her passion for this great country and celebrate our freedom, our larrikin sense of humour, our cultural uniqueness...and to meet everyone who shares this passion too.
PROFILE
Born in Tasmania, Robyn spent her early years on sheep and cattle stations from Tasmania to outback Queensland. (Her dad was a stockman, drover, shearer and shearers' chef). It was on these isolated properties that wireless became her "friend" and her creative imagination ran wild.
She began her career as a primary school teacher in 1972 in Tasmania, moved into the sphere of Drama and Movement and toured Tasmanian schools with the Drama in Education Group. She worked for both the ABC and the Department of Education as a Liaison Officer, scriptwriter, presenter and voice-over artist for national ABC Education Programs.
For five years Robyn combined her work in education with acting and singing (as a band vocalist, MC and performer in musical comedy.) She still works with young students and speaks around Australia to students and educators from early childhood to tertiary education and at the "Rising Generations" National Student Leadership Camps. Robyn also works with young people "at risk".
In 1976, Robyn and husband Hal moved to Sydney where she quickly established herself as one of Australia's most versatile performers doing voice-overs, newsreading on 2KY, comedy sketches with Doug Mulray on Triple M for three years, radio segments on health with Dr James Wright for 20 years and has been the voice on St George Phone Banking for 20 years.
On TV, Robyn has appeared as a regular advertorial presenter on 'Til Ten' and 'The Bert Newton Show' and as a character actor and corporate spokesperson for Channel 7.
Awarded the 1998 "National Communicator of the Year Award" for EXCELLENCE in oral communication, it's not surprising that Robyn is one of Australia's most in-demand speakers at National and International Conferences, Corporate Workshops, Product Launches, Special Events and speaks in many different states every week about "The Power of the Word".
! Her unique relationship with words allows her to open up "life-altering" communication skills for thousands of people every year.
A third of her work is donated to Not For Profit Organisations. Robyn has been a National Patron of Make-A-Wish Foundation (a Volunteer and a Wish Granter) for 18+ years, an Ambassador for the Australian Childhood Foundation, and is a "friend" of many other charities including Alzheimers Australia.
One of Robyn's favourite assignments each year is being an Australia Day Ambassador. She considers it a wonderful privilege to share her passion for this great country and celebrate our freedom, our larrikin sense of humour, our cultural uniqueness...and to meet everyone who shares this passion too!
Robyn has been an Australia Day Ambassador for 22 years and has visited Fairfield, Albury, Culcairn and Urana Shire, Bega, Windsor, Port Macquarie, Gunnedah, Glen Innes, Walcha, Campbelltown, Mollymook, Carbonne Shire, Yass and Canberra, Captain's Flat and Bungendore, Blue Mountains, Corowa, Auburn (which has the highest number of refugees in Australia)...and Glenorchy, New Norfolk, Latrobe and Clarence Shires in Tasmania.
FAMILY BACKGROUND: Robyn has been married to Hal for 42 years and they have two wonderful sons, Toby and Daniel. After living in Sydney for 17 years, the family moved back home to Hobart in 1992 so that their sons (then 8 and 11) could experience the life-style Hal and Robyn had enjoyed in their youth. For the last 22 years, Robyn has commuted to Sydney one day each week to continue her recording session work?and travels extensively with her Speaking Engagments. Her sons say they loved living in Tassie "because they learned to be real". Toby is now 33, a NIDA Graduate in Sydney in 2005 (where he met his beautiful wife Michelle). Michelle has just finished 2 seasons of ABC's "Time of our Lives" and Toby is a self-sustaining actor in New York City (they also do Voice-Overs). Daniel is an Award Winning Architect working in Melbourne?and he does Voice-Over work as well.
