Xavier Minniecon

{{Short description|Australian television weather presenter}} {{Use Australian English|date=February 2012}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} '''Xavier Minniecon''' (born 4 July 1967{{cn|date=August 2024}}) is an Australian former television weather presenter. He was the weekend weather presenter on the Adelaide, South Australia edition of the Nine Network's ''Nine News'' from 1997 to 2011.<ref name="nine1">{{Cite web| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110605060958/http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=449347 | archive-date=5 June 2011 | url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=449347|title=Xavier Minniecon Biography|publisher=Nine News}}</ref><ref name="nws1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nws9.com.au/weather_desk.html|title=The Weather Desk|publisher=NWS9 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091018132121/http://www.nws9.com.au/weather_desk.html | archive-date = 18 October 2009}}</ref>

Minniecon was born in Rockhampton, Queensland on 4 July 1967. He moved to Darwin, Northern Territory in his late teens and attended Darwin High School, where he matriculated. Before working in media, he was employed variously as a computer salesman, assistant gardener, barman, waiter and singing telegram messenger.<ref name="advertiser-reins">{{cite news | title=Weatherman has the reins. | work=The Advertiser | date=29 January 1998 | author=Yeaman, Simon}}</ref><ref name=nws1/> Minniecon's media career began in Darwin in 1985 as a police and court radio reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), and then later as a television weather presenter for ABC. He joined Channel 9's weekend news team as weatherman in 1997.<ref name=nws1/><ref name="advertiser-reins"/> He is also a popular host for a wide spectrum of organisations and events around the Adelaide area.<ref name="nine1" /><ref name="icmi1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.icmi.com.au/xavier-minniecon|title=Speaker Xavier Minniecon- Full Biography|publisher=ICMI Speakers and Entertainers|access-date=25 January 2010}}</ref>

Minniecon's recreational interests include cooking, meditation and massage therapy. He also has a long-standing interest in new religion and the supernatural and has published a book of supernatural stories, ''Shadows—Tales of South Australia's Supernatural''.<ref name="nine1" />

On 13 January 2011, a spokesperson for Nine Adelaide revealed Minniecon's contract had not been renewed.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nine weatherman Minniecon dumped|url=http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/ipad/nine-weatherman-minniecon-dumped/story-fn6bqphm-1225988385345|access-date=30 January 2011|newspaper=Sunday Mail (SA)|date=16 January 2011}}</ref> He now works as a voice artist and professional speaker.<ref name=icmi>{{cite web | url = http://www.icmi.com.au/xavier-minniecon |title = ICMI Speakers and Entertainers - Xavier Minniecon | access-date = 12 November 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.voices.com/people/prosperity_breathe | title = Voices.com - Xavier Minniecon | access-date = 12 November 2015 }}</ref>

Minniecon is a widower and has three children.<ref name=nws1/>

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