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Andrew Vlahov is a retired Australian professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball League of Australia from 1991 through until the 2001/2002 season. Vlahov is now managing director and chief executive of listed thermal energy company Enerji.



While still on the playing roster with the Wildcats, Vlahov teamed up with ex-NBA player and fellow Western Australian Luc Longley to purchase the Wildcats franchise from owner Kerry Stokes.

Once Longley pulled out of the venture Vlahov was the majority shareholder of the club (with Mack Hall holding a small minority of shares) until the completion of the 2005/2006 season when West Australian Jack Bendat took over the club.

In his time as owner of the Wildcats, Vlahov was instrumental in the NBL's push into the Asian market including match telecasts to Asian countries and the now discontinued "Singapore Spectacular" (a regular season match where the Wildcats played host to another NBL team in Singapore).

Vlahov appeared in a television commercial for "King Size Big and Tall", an Australian clothing company that specialises in clothing for big men. (Source: Wikipedia)

Liam Bartlett is a journalist from Perth, Western Australia. He worked on the Nine Network's 60 Minutes current affairs program for six years and a half years before leaving, citing family reasons.

Previously, Liam had a six year stint with ABC radio station 720 ABC Perth, presenting the morning program. He had previously worked for STW 9 in Perth and GWN in Bunbury as a news anchor and reporter.

While working on Perth radio stations, Liam also had a weekly opinion column in the News Corporation newspaper The Sunday Times. He had previously appeared on television on the 7.30 Report, ABC TV and the Nine Network Australia (GTV Melbourne) presenting both current affairs and news.

Bartlett was a delegate to the Australian Constitutional Convention 1998. He was an elected delegate and had contested the poll as an independent candidate.

In 2002, Bartlett won a Churchill Fellowship to study investigative journalism. He spent three months in the United States and the United Kingdom.


In July 2006 he left Perth radio station 6PR after only nine weeks on air to join 60 Minutes, replacing the late Richard Carleton.

During his career Bartlett has won three international and two national awards for reporting, including New York Festival awards for both TV and Radio and the Bridget Bardot (Genesis) Award for TV. In addition he has been awarded four (4) separate state-based (WA) AJA (Australian Journalists Association) Awards for investigative reports and feature writing.

Pictured with them both.

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