The newsreader and journalist revealed her baby news on Wednesday, … She eventually gave the plum gig up in Perth to come back home to live with him.“I remember the first news bulletin I read, I came off and my heart was pounding,” she says.Loxley ended up studying the celebrated RMIT University journalism degree, based out of building six on Bowen Lane, right in the middle of Melbourne’s CBD.“I wasn’t quite good enough to become a professional tennis player, but I thought a great way of living out that dream of travelling the world was by becoming a physio,” she says.“I love the sense of community and being so close to the city,” she says.“That has been a complete change.A year later, in late 2003, she got the call to read her first ABC television news bulletin – and at the age of 22, was very young in industry terms.If she’d had her way when she was a teenager, Nine’s Alicia Loxley would have been a travelling tennis professional and not one of Australia’s most accomplished TV presenters.She eventually moved to Perth and at 21 she got a job at the ABC radio station Triple J.The Loxley family live in Melbourne’s bustling inner northeast, on the CBD’s very edge.“I’m hoping to get back into it when the kids are a bit older.”It was at RMIT that Loxley first had her eye on a career as a broadcaster.For two and a half years and still only in her 20s, Loxley read the Monday-to-Friday main news bulletin from Perth and also hosted the statewide drive radio program.The station gave Loxley the gig permanently in 2006 and she has never looked back.“Eighty per cent of the time the boys get along, and the rest of the time they are wrestling or doing something like that.”On the family front, Loxley is mum to Archie, 5, Ned, 3, and Ada, three months.With work and the kids there isn’t much time off for Loxley, and that includes playing the sport she loved so much growing up, before her passion for broadcast took hold – tennis.“But of course looking back now, it was the best thing I did.”The late Paul Lockyer was reading weeknight ABC News for Western Australia full-time, but he ended up moving back to Sydney.But it was a Melbourne institution, where students from all over Australia and internationally, including Loxley, got together to try and solve the world’s problems.The famous building has seen the start of careers for many well-known Australian journalists and broadcasters, in between a few drinks at the famous Oxford Scholar pub across the road.Not only was Loxley back in Melbourne where her family is from, but she was also snapped up by Channel Nine and her career has continued to skyrocket.Last month, she returned from maternity leave to read Nine’s weekend news, and hopes to be back to read the network’s 4pm weekday news soon.Raising three kids aged five and under can be busy and tough at times, but Loxley wouldn’t have it any other way.“I was so nervous, but I really enjoyed it.”“It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but it’s also the best thing I’ve ever done.
We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. A post shared by Alicia Loxley (@aloxley) on Aug 18, 2019 at 2:18am PDT For two and a half years and still only in her 20s, Loxley read the Monday-to …
It’s pretty awesome to see their personalities evolving.“I think it’s really hard for people who aren’t seeing that sort of publicity, that is a hard transition.”The old Oxford Scholar is no longer there, demolished because of the Metro Tunnel development. 'It's a girl!