Mark Dodshon

Mark Dodshon's varied career has included work as presenter/producer on JJJ radio and long-time host of The Australian Music Show; freelance journalist for newspapers and magazines including the Sydney Morning Herald andRolling Stone; presenter and researcher for the weekly music show Edge of the Wedge on ABC TV; producer/director of an international daily music show, JAM, for .Australia Television; and creator and presenter of a weekly international radio program, The Big Backyard, which was distributed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to 500 radio stations worldwide. He has also been a high school English and history teacher, a full-time househusband and child-carer, and the national campaign manager for the Nuclear Disarmament Party in the 1984 federal election. Most recently he has been a strategist and designer with Balance Design, a multimedia company that specialises in web sites for the music industry. Mark lives in Sydney with his wife and son.