Personally I think Vanessa O’Hanlon might’ve made for a better weather presenter on the Southern NSW/ACT bulletins (remembering that’s what she did at ABC News Breakfast before moving to Nine) although I can definitely understand why they decided on recorded forecasts from Gavin Morris in Newcastle.
With their histories at WIN News (important when targeting the key Illawarra and Canberra markets), either Danielle Post or Natassia Appoloni probably should be the main newsreader for Nine News Southern NSW/ACT. Nine had the right idea in that regard for the Regional QLD bulletins with Paul Taylor and Samantha Heathwood + Paul Murphy on Sport.
Having said all that, it’ll probably be difficult to crack the Illawarra market until Geoff Phillips (who to the best of my knowledge, is a local media icon) retires from WIN News, while Nine News may never be #1 in Canberra due to the unique demographical factors that make ABC TV and radio particularly popular there.