Mickie de Stoop

[2] Starting as a reporter on No Man's Land when it launched in March 1974, de Stoop succeeded the original host Tanya Halesworth.

[3][4] After the program was moved to another timeslot which producer Robyn Miller later described as "unworkable" and was also challenged by censorship, it was axed in 1976.

[2] In 1976, a photograph of de Stoop appeared on the front cover of the Christmas edition of Melbourne's Sunday Observer TV magazine.

[6] De Stoop was one of the many former GTV-9 personalities invited back to the original studios in Richmond in 2010 for a special farewell celebration prior to the building being demolished to make way for a new apartment complex.

[16] Despite describing his choice as "radical" and declaring his friendship with de Stoop, Ford said he named her in his list of five due to her pivotal role in hosting television programs that were presented by and for women which covered issues that weren't usually discussed on television at that time.