For many people who tune into Victoria's 7pm news each weeknight, Paul Higgins has been a familiar face for almost 40 years. As he prepares for his final weather report, he reflects on the highlights of his career.
When a young Paul Higgins sat through lectures in law and economics at Monash University in 1978, the last place he dreamt he'd ultimately wind up was in a television studio.
He played records and tapes, and hooked the show up to the house landline so neighbours could call in. "When I started doing the weather at Seven," he says, "we relied on faxes coming in from the weather bureau, which may or may not turn up, and they'd send in a weather map with isobars on it. "The Gulf War started on the same morning we were on … and we're thinking 'oh no, what do we do?' — we were all worried about everything as well.
And now, nearly four decades later, he's still being approached in the street by viewers keen to get the scoop on what the weather's doing. "It was a very strange news night because there I was on the steps of the Supreme Court, talking to the media … and then 20 minutes later I was on air presenting the weather," he says."A few people got in touch to say: 'It's amazing you could do that, but your father would be so proud of you that you did'."
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