Radio and TV Controversies – Part 2

<p>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.</p><p>There was the Geelong water poisoning scandal.</p><ul><li><p>The Ansett bomb threat.</p></li><li><p>Graham Kennedy having AIDS</p></li><li><p>David Hookes separated from his wife with a girlfriend he was about to buy a new house with.</p></li><li><p>All history owes the dead is the truth.</p></li></ul>