Episode notes
The first one happened within weeks of my joining 3AW. The pre-election political news blackout. I broke it before the 1979 state election and was suspended. I joked that it was great to know my journalistic colleagues were behind me. I didn’t know how far behind me they were. I kept campaigning and in 1983 I got Bob Hawke to change the law.
There was the Geelong water poisoning scandal.
The Ansett bomb threat.
Graham Kennedy having AIDS
David Hookes separated from his wife with a girlfriend he was about to buy a new house with.
All history owes the dead is the truth.
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