Alison Plath

Profile

I’m Ali. Across most of my working life, my job has come back to one thing: helping people feel comfortable enough to be themselves.

That thread runs through the Australian jersey on a touch football field, a radio studio at 4.30am, major business, sporting and charity events, and now guest experience and tourism.

At my best, I help guests, clients and colleagues feel welcome, looked after and included. Practical and hands-on, I pitch in wherever I’m needed and would rather have a difficult conversation early than let a problem grow.

17Years representing Australia in touch football

10+Years in live radio

ACRAMy team won Best On Air Team (Provincial) in 2024

$526kOur 2018 appeal raised $526,926 for the Royal Hobart Hospital children’s ward

Experience

Guest experience and events on the Gold Coast.

March 2026 to present

Guest Experience Officer

Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary

At Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, I look after front-of-house guests.

Maintaining a consistent standard of care across high daily visitor volumes, including guests with accessibility and mobility requirements.
Handling complaints and difficult moments at the front line with empathy and judgement.
Coordinating with multiple departments to help the site run smoothly.

2026 to present

Host & Event Coordinator

Flourish Experiences Gold Coast

At Flourish, I launched the Gold Coast chapter and grew it from nothing to more than fifty women at the first event.

Designing events where women can arrive as strangers and leave feeling connected.
Managing each event from end to end, including venues, suppliers, logistics and live hosting.
Looking after every part of the guest experience, from the first booking through to post-event follow-up.

“I saw how much people crave real experiences, honest conversations and genuine community. That is what I want every event to create.”
My reflection after leading twenty women to Uluru, 2026

Alison Plath with a group of women on a Flourish Experiences trip at Uluru — Leading a Flourish group at Uluru in 2026. Image via RadioToday

Broadcast experience

From community broadcasting to award-winning breaky radio.

Live radio taught me to read a room, hold my nerve and keep a small team working together in public, every morning, with no edit button.

The 92.5 Triple M Gold Coast breakfast team in studio with their ACRA award — Our team in the 92.5 Triple M Gold Coast studio with our ACRA. Image via Inside Gold Coast

2026

Hot Tomato, Gold Coast

Fill-in presenter

Hot Tomato invited me back to the microphone for the Gold Coast’s number one breakfast show.

2022 to 2024

92.5 Triple M Gold Coast

Flan, Ali & Spida

We won ACRA Best On Air Team (Provincial) in 2024, a national award judged on how well a team works together. Our breakfast audience grew sharply that year, narrowing the gap with the market leader. In 2022 the three of us walked 33km from Broadbeach to Coolangatta while broadcasting live and collecting donations. We raised more than $20,000 for flood-hit communities in the Tweed and Northern Rivers.

Alison Plath on stage accepting the ACRA for Best On Air Team, Provincial, 2024 — Accepting our Best On Air Team (Provincial) award at the 2024 ACRAs in Sydney. Image via Inside Gold Coast

2021

Zinc 96, Gympie & Sunshine Coast

Bilko & Ali

Zinc 96 chose me for breakfast after a six-week search that trialled twenty different on-air pairings.

2017 to 2019

107.3 Triple M Hobart

The Dave Noonan Show with Al Plath

This was my first breakfast role, in a city where I knew nobody. The role included co-fronting Give Me 5 for Kids, where our 2018 campaign raised $526,926 for the Royal Hobart Hospital children’s ward. It also included Hobart’s first International Women’s Day radio special, giving three hours of the show to influential Tasmanian women, including the Leader of the Opposition and the CEO of AFL Tasmania.

Alison Plath and Dave Noonan with a guest in the Triple M 107.3 Hobart studio — Nearly three years of 4.30am starts alongside Dave Noonan at Triple M 107.3 Hobart.

2015 to 2016

Bay FM, Redlands & Triple M Brisbane

Where it started

Community radio at Bay FM came first, followed by Triple M Brisbane and the chance to learn the craft from the ground up before earning my first breakfast role in Hobart.

Listen

Watch and listen.

These selections cover live events and breakfast radio, followed by three mornings from the Triple M Hobart archive: one silly, one serious and one devoted to a children’s hospital appeal.

Hosting the Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards. Via @triplemgoldcoast

We returned to air the morning after winning our ACRA. Via @triplemgoldcoast

This was a typical morning on breakfast radio. Via @triplemgoldcoast

On air with Flan and Spida. Via @triplemgoldcoast

Triple M Hobart · Aug 2017 · 19 min

A Thor movie rumour gets the full breakfast-show treatment

Peter ‘Fordy’ Ford tells us The Village People have been sacked, our Hobart Cash Quiz descends into mayhem, and we investigate a rumour that I appear in the film.

Audio: Triple M Hobart via Omny

Triple M Hobart · 25 min

The morning we polled Hobart and interviewed the Premier

We run a live listener poll on Hobart’s proposed cable car, play ‘Mum’s The Word’, then interview the Tasmanian Premier about the Bridgewater Bridge.

Audio: Triple M Hobart via Omny

Triple M Hobart · May 2018 · 25 min

The morning we gave the whole show to Give Me 5 for Kids

We broadcast live from Elwick Racecourse with ambassador families whose children had been treated at Royal Hobart Hospital. That year’s campaign raised $526,926.

Audio: Triple M Hobart via Omny

Representative honours

Seventeen years representing Australia in touch football.

Across those 17 years, I adapted to changing coaches, teammates and standards. That run included World Cups in Sydney and Japan, plus co-captaincy of a mixed squad with professional rugby league players.

17Years representing Australia, from 1997 to 2013, through changing coaches, teammates and standards.

2World Cups in Sydney and Japan, including co-captaining the Australian Mixed Open team.

50Years of the sport considered for the 2018 Mixed Open Golden Jubilee Team. Named in the final side.

Alison Plath in the Australian touch football team photo, in green and gold — Seventeen years in the green and gold across multiple Australian squads.

Co-captaining a mixed team meant bringing different playing styles, reputations and expectations together under one standard that everybody accepted.
What the armband required of me

Career note

Raising four children across three decades.

Raising four children meant completing the equivalent of two full K-12 cycles, back to back. Every national team campaign, 4.30am start and career move was planned around my family. That is why my timeline looks the way it does, and I would not reorder a day of it.

Community & charity

Using my voice and event experience for the community.

Hobart, 2017 to 2019

Give Me 5 for Kids

Royal Hobart Hospital children’s ward

On Triple M Hobart, I co-fronted the annual appeal for the children’s ward. Our 2018 campaign raised $526,926.

Ongoing

MC and host

Corporate, sporting and charity events, nationally

Repeat bookings include the Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards, the Touch Football Australia Women’s Summit and AFLW ground-announcing roles. Much of my charity event work is donated.

Career spotlights