Alexander Edward Dyson (born 22 June 1988) is an Australian radio presenter who presented the breakfast show on Australian youth radio station

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from 2010 to 2016, alongside

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and then with Matt Okine. He is also a small business owner and published author. He contested the seat of Wannon at the

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and 2025 federal elections.

Personal life

Dyson was born to parents Ian and Helen Jean Dyson and grew up in

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, Victoria. Dyson's mother died when he was four years old. He graduated from the

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with a Bachelor of Creative Arts.

Career

Dyson began his radio career on Warrnambool community station 3WAY FM with

. Dyson and Ballard began presenting '' mid-dawn'' shifts for Australian youth radio station, Triple J in 2007 after program director, Chris Scaddan, saw Ballard perform stand-up comedy at Raw Comedy. They made their transition to weekend radio in late 2008, taking over from Sam Simmons. On 23 November 2009, Triple J announced that Ballard and Dyson would take over as hosts of the breakfast show in 2010, replacing Robbie Buck, Marieke Hardy and Lindsay McDougall. Matt Okine joined Dyson as co-host in January 2014 when Ballard left Triple J. During this period his audience of up to one million people heard Dyson interview a wide range of people including many up-and-coming Australian musicians, politicians such as Prime Minister

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, and worldwide celebrities including

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. In 2013 Dyson and Ballard won the Aria award for Best Comedy Release with an album of extracts from their radio show called ''The Bits we’re least ashamed of''. On 21 November 2016, Triple J announced that Okine and Dyson would be leaving Triple J at the end of 2016. Dyson returned to Triple J as a temporary Lunch (Weekdays 12 - 3pm) host in 2018, while regular host Gen Fricker filled in for Veronica Milsom on Drive. In 2019, Dyson announced he was running in the seat of Wannon for the 2019 Australian federal election. His campaign was brief but featured an unusual video where he presented hi
key policies via interpretive dance
The video received extensive media coverage both within Australia and internationally. Despite the limited campaign, Dyson secured 10.3% of the vote, despite the seat being classified as a safe Coalition seat since the 1970s. In 2020, just at the beginning of the global COVID pandemic, Dyson opened a live comedy venu
Comedy Republic
Dyson is the author of two books, a young adult fiction novel ''When it Drops'', released in 2020, and a children’s book ''Eric the Awkward Orc'', released in 2022. ''When it Drops'' was awarded on the 2021 “Notable” list by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. Dyson announced his candidacy for Wannon at the 2022 federal election on 7 January 2022, running on a platform of action on climate change, integrity and respect in Parliament, and investing in the regional economy. His candidacy was supported by Voices of Wannon, one of a substantial number of grassroots community groups supporting independent candidates across Australia at the 2022 election. Dyson ended up narrowly losing to Dan Tehan, securing 19.29% of the votes in the first preference count, and 46.08% of the votes in the two candidate preferred count. In August 2024 Dyson announced his intention to contest the seat of Wannon as an independent at the

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Discography

Albums

Awards and nominations

ARIA Music Awards

The

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are a set of annual ceremonies presented by

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(ARIA), which recognise excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of the

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, '' The Bits We're Least Ashamed of'' (with

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

, ''Play It Out'' (with Matt Okine) , , -

References

External links

Official Website
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