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Broadcast journalist. Purveyor of nostalgia. #Adelaide

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Joined March 2011
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5 years
Love this country! #Sydney #SydneyStabbing
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We should have sent Humphrey to Paris.. #Raygun #Olympics #Paris2024
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37 years later, Benita is still waiting for the cat...
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Huge turn out at Adelaide rally. @7NewsAdelaide
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Unbelievable. While he was helping rescue the boys in Thailand, Dr Richard Harris' father died. Awful. #ThaiCaveRescue #Adelaide
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5 years
LIVE: Prince Andrew watching Panorama. #BBCPanorama #PrinceAndrew #Panorama
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2 years
When you were sick home from school: Flat lemonade, dry Vegemite toast and the Midday show cured most ailments.
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I made a reference to the Two Ronnies in the office today. Was greeted by mainly blank looks. There's now a whole generation who've never known their brilliance.
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Here's a plan: Let's open our borders to NSW, VIC & ACT for 11 days. Let Covid seed in our virus-free community. Have WA & the NT shut us out. Then let's slam our borders closed again to the East. Yeah. That'll work. Good plan. #saparli #Adelaide
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We've lost one of SA's great political minds with the passing of Professor Dean Jaensch. Fond memories of working with him on ABC radio. His experience and insight, unmatched. A great teacher to generations. #DeanJaensch #saparli #Adelaide
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8 years
"Sweden.. Don't doubt me. I know all about #Sweden . I am an expert on Sweden..." #TrumpRally #lastnightinSweden #JeSuisIKEA
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TV's favourite Mum has be called to the big soundstage in the sky. Farewell #FlorenceHenderson . Much more than just #CarolBrady .
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3 years
Grant Stevens: "Committing crime is not one of the 5 reasons to leave home" #Lockdown #Adelaide
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7 years
When you should have got Michelangelo to sculpt your school statue... #Adelaide
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When SA had hands down the grooviest Premier and Governor.. #saparli #Adelaide
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Can you believe it's 25 years since these three first revolutionised TV current affairs? 25 years! #Frontline #StreetsOfFear #DisturbingStoryThatOne
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3 years
The last time you could visit Perth, it looked like this... #auspol #wapol
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2 years
A Snowtown woman has won $40 Million in tonight's Powerball!! If only there was somewhere in the town to store the cash..
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You can only hope she's now reunited with her little ones. Rest in peace. #Adelaide
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In 2018 we're worried about slipping on onions at Bunnings. In 1981 you could throw yourself off the Glenelg jetty wrapped in plywood and paper mache. #ThrowbackThursday #BirdmanRally #Adelaide
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3 years
Dear Mother Nature.. If I wanted this sort of humidity, I would have booked a flight to Cairns. Enough. Thanks. #Adelaide
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Hope they're sharing a beer and going for a spin in the Kingswood.. #Vale #LexMarinos
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6 years
When Eddie tries to sleep tonight, this will be all he sees.. #AFLGF
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4 years
What the hell is going on at @abcnews ? 10pm radio newsreader sounded completely out of it. They loudly shouted "fu*k off" twice and were replaced halfway through the bulletin. @abcadelaide #YourABC
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When Basil sent Manuel to the chemist for a RAT and he came back with a hamster... #covid #auspol
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Amazing Anzac silo art in the Victorian town of Devenish. Photo: p1xels #AnzacDay
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It worked for the Bee Gees! #AmberSherlock #WardrobeWillBeFurious
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On this day, 1967: Don Dunstan started his first stint as SA Premier. #Adelaide #saparli Pic: Dunstan Collection
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6 years
Breaking: Instagram down worldwide. Hipsters unable to eat. #Instagram #InstagramDown
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3 years
Bugger toilet paper... I'm off to panic buy Haigh's and Barossa Shiraz! #Adelaide #Covid19SA
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4 years
5 signs you grew up in Adelaide in the 80s. 1. You bought music at CCs. 2. You saw movies at the Academy. 3. You were in the audience of the Channel Niners. 4. You rode a redhen with the door open. 5. You believed stories about razorblades at Magic Mountain. #Adelaide #SAGreat
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3 years
Marvellous date today... 2/2/2022..
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5 years
Sleep well tonight.. The free world is in safe hands. #Trump #BorisJohnson
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It's awful Dan. Don't come. #Adelaide
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Vale Vili Milisits. A refugee from Hungary, he was a proud South Aussie who built an incredible business and gave generous support to the community. #Vili #Adelaide
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4 years
It's been very hot in many places this week, but now it's hot in Sydney, it's all we hear about on national media. No-one else cares. Perth is 24 today, Adelaide 24, Melbourne 19, Brisbane 31, Hobart 20..
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The planets align.. 22 degrees at 2:22 on 2/2/22! Richie Benaud would be over the moon. #Adelaide
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Michael Smyth
1 year
Less Dave Hughes, more Sam Pang please.. #Logies
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Michael Smyth
4 years
The quarantine snacks have arrived.. #Trump #TrumpCovid
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3 years
Just in: Police have arrested and charged the 19 year who allegedly went nightclubbing knowing he was Covid positive. He's in the lock-up and will front court tomorrow. #Adelaide
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PSA: You'll need to wear a mask tomorrow. Not for Covid. But because it'll be 34 degrees and there are wheelie bins filled with cheap lobster scraps. #Adelaide
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There's now a whole generation that would have no idea what this is.. But I can still hear the noise (in triplicate!)
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Jane Doyle at the start of her TV career in the 80s. She's just been awarded an OAM for service to the broadcast media and the community. Onya Doyley! #7NEWS @JaneDoyle7 #AustraliaDay #Adelaide
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Bear, Cat, Woman, Guitar, TV..
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8 years
Tonight millions of people in 170 countries will pretend they're living in South Australia. #EarthHour #saparli #Adelaide
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5 years
Happy Birthday to SA Governor Hieu Van Le... who arrived by boat from Vietnam with nothing but an "invisible suitcase full of dreams", proving Australia really is a land of incredible opportunity. #HappyNewYear
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Forget Dave Sharma or Kerryn Phelps.. Bea Smith will always be top dog in Wentworth. #WentworthByElection #auspol #Wentworth
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6 years
Just met some American tourists who said "We've just been to Adelaide. It was nicer than we thought it would be". Could be a new tourism slogan? *Adelaide: Nicer than you think*. #Adelaide @southaustralia
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Just heading into the FM shop in John Martin's plaza to pick up discounted tickets to see Dire Straits at Memorial Drive..
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Remember the olden days when the whole state would freak over reports an infected truckie had stopped at an OTR in Port Augusta? #OldenDays
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Sad there's no local programming on ABC radio at the moment beyond Breakfast. Not even local news bulletins in the afternoon. We're not served well when it becomes the Sydney Broadcasting Corporation. #YourABC #Adelaide
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Dear #Adelaide drivers.. It's not hard to wave when someone lets you into traffic. And you don't have to speed up to stop people merging into your lane. #ThankYou
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Michael Smyth
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Thank you for the lunacy and the laughter.. #TimBrookeTaylor #RIP #TheGoodies
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3 years
Trying to avoid a covid exposure site between now and Xmas. #saparli #Adelaide
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4 years
PSA: Reminder.. If you see news happening, please turn your phone sideways and shoot it in landscape. TV stations will love you fully sick...
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3 years
If I win #Powerball tonight I'll be able to fill up the car..
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"Can you lock up that Chris Uhlmann?" "No, he's an Aust.." "But you're the Prime Minister of Austria!" "No, I'm the Chancellor of Germany"
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Imagine the laughs they'd be sharing tonight... #BarryHumphries
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4 years
Encouraging to hear Steven Marshall tell @7NewsAdelaide late edition news, that as of 6pm, despite all the testing today, there have been no more positive results detected. Fingers crossed for tomorrow. #covid19sa #Adelaide
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Forget pie floaters, frog cakes or FruChocs... the double-cut roll is arguably SA's greatest culinary contribution. #Adelaide #SAGreat
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Shout out to Spence Denny who's just announced his retirement after 33 years at the ABC. Big loss for the Collinswood Dream Factory. Go well Mr Versatile! #BigRedCar
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2 years
Entertainment Centre pretty in pink for Olivia Newton-John... #ONJ #OliviaNewtonJohn #Adelaide
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4 years
Dear #QandA , How come Steven Marshall isn't on your show given SA is leading the nation in managing coronavirus? Schools are back and restrictions have been nowhere near as draconian as NSW, VIC & QLD. #covid19 #qanda
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Dear Convicts, Welcome to South Australia. Please round your vowels.. Lay off the serial killer jokes.. And remember this man is our King. #GatherRound #AFL #Adelaide
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Well done Victoria. Only 46 years after SA... #saparli #springst
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5 years
Another mass shooting in the U.S... How about doing more than just offering "thoughts and prayers" @realDonaldTrump ? #GunControlNow #GarlicFestival #California #Gilroy
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Handy tip: If you see news happening, please turn your phone sideways to shoot it and TV stations will love you forever...
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4 years
Home of the Double Blues is more burnt orange. Unley Oval sunrise. #Adelaide
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The Anzac Arch which stood behind the Adelaide railway station, to welcome home all those who served in the Great War. Pic: @slsa #AnzacDay
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3 years
I reckon our new Premier should borrow from Don's relaxed style when he gets sworn in tomorrow.. #SAVotes #saparli
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2 years
Despite warnings, found check-in a breeze this morning. Now off to the Golden Wing Club to watch Good Morning Australia and send a couple of faxes before my mystery flight... Pic: @ADL_Archivist #Adelaide
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Junior doctor at Lyell McEwin who suspected the first covid case in Parafield cluster declared a "heroine" by Prof. Nicola Spurrier. Says early detection made a huge difference. #SAlockdown #COVIDSA #Adelaide
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Remember having one of these in the backyard? Just about every Adelaide home had one, along with a Water Softener and an InSinkErator. #Adelaide
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2 years
How to pick the tennis fans in your office tomorrow... #Wimbledon #Kyrgios
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So SA Health has just listed Zhivago, last Friday, as a close contact location. I'm sweating bullets that Le Rox, 1989 will be next.. #Adelaide
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Feel like I've lost part of my childhood with the passing of John Hamblin. 'Naughty John' was always playing to the mums at home, as well as the kids. #PlaySchool #JohnHamblin #ValeJohnHamblin
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It's 27° at 10:45pm. It's bin night.. and you can smell the whole street had prawns for Xmas. #Adelaide
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Enjoying a Lion Nathan watching Nathan Lyon.. #Ashes #Adelaide
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2 years
Good luck BOM.. I still call Adelaide Metro, the STA. #Adelaide
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I used to work for the ABC's Stateline program, but have no idea why I reminded people of Mike Moore...
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5 years
Just 13 days now until the talking clock falls silent. The familiar voice of late ABC announcer Richard Peach, pictured here in 1990. (If you've never heard it, dial 1194 while you can) #Adelaide #ThirdStroke #TalkingClock
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Happy 90th Birthday Aunty.. Just found my foyer photo from 1932! #ABC90 #ABC #Adelaide
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If this sentence makes sense to you, you should probably be in bed by now: "Take your 107 card down to the FM shop in John Martin's Plaza for two free tickets to see Chisel at the Apollo." #Adelaide
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It's 70 years today since the Queen took the throne... Quite remarkable. Back then.. Tom Playford was Premier, Adelaide didn't have television and KG had only been on radio for 20 years. #StrikeMePink #Adelaide
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The perfect gift for that hard to buy for Prince.. #PrinceFrederik
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You can only imagine the stories they'd be telling... #BertNewton #RIPBert
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Remember riding these old STA buses in summer? Nothing like sticking to a vinyl seat.. #ThrowbackThursday #Adelaide
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This is heartbreaking to watch.. Linda Williams and Peter Malinauskas both showed incredible strength. Thoughts with the Stevens family. #saparli #Adelaide
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Police Commissioner Grant Stevens’ teenage son is on life support with irreversible brain damage after a hit-run crash at Goolwa Beach. Premier Peter Malinauskas and Deputy Commissioner Linda Williams have responded to the Schoolies incident involving Charlie Stevens. #7NEWS
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For the whole generation of South Aussies who have no idea why it's called the "old Le Cornu site" #Adelaide
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Finding a little envelope with a chocolate still in it after one of your parents' dinner parties was like winning Lotto! #ThrowbackThursday
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Postcard of the week.. #Adelaide
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Only a Sth Aussie could translate this: "I was down at the Bay throwing back a few Woodies watching Willsy & Cornesy put on a show at Lennie's when K.G stopped by and said "'Strike me pink Studley, my frog cake fell on the floor and I slammed into a stobie outside Le Cornu's."
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Plastic Bag Bag... South Australia (left) QLD, NSW, VIC (right) #Coles #Adelaide #WarOnWaste #GetOverIt
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3 years
I yearn for the olden days.. when on a hot Summer's day your only fear was a razor blade on a waterslide. #Adelaide
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Eat your heart out Monet.. #Henley #Sunset #Adelaide
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2 years
End of an era as Jane Doyle announces her departure from 7NEWS after 33 years! Such a pro. This was her first night in 1989, when Willsy welcomed her to the team with a special pair of glasses. Onya Doyley! #Adelaide @7NewsAdelaide
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Most kids today wouldn't know how to use this book...let alone drive a Gemini wearing ice skates. #Adelaide
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The closest thing Adelaide has ever had to a royal family.. #Adelaide
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3 years
Congratulations to K.G, being recognised with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the SA Press Club tonight. #StrikeMePink #SAPressClub #Adelaide
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