Left-field suggestion for top job springs school days’ revelation, while a Labor MP campaigns for Voice while missing Voice campaign.
to pull us up for overlooking the person he believes is an obvious choice – former Melbourne ABC radio mornings fixture“There is no better qualified person in Australia who could make a solid contribution to the vision and administration of the ABC,” Merlino reckons.
The retired school principal concedes a certain partiality in this matter: he taught Faine at Melbourne High back in the 1970s, remembering young Jon as an outstanding and “highly inquisitive” student.“He regularly threw me out of class for being disruptive,” the former broadcaster told us. “My school report read: ‘There are few boys in this class that need regular disciplining ... Faine is one of them.
“It’s a rare opportunity to be smack bang in the centre of it, adding our bit to the nation’s team at the UN and over in DC,” he said.The Qantas Pathfinder Revue has been showcasing the singing and dancing talents of the airline’s staff since 1967, but we reckon the carrier’s in-house entertainment troupe has never had so much material to work with.“Hear ye! Hear ye! Queen Vanessa, the first she/her of her kind has ascended to the Qantas throne in the street at Mascot,” goes the blurb.
It all looks like good clean fun – it’s an all-ages show in Sydney from October 31 to November 4 but organisers did not respond to our hopeful inquiries about possible Melbourne dates. Don’t expect the airline’s management to cop the type of roasting they regularly suffered from the recently stepped-downis a CBD columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Previously he worked as a reporter for Crikey, covering federal politics from the Canberra Press Gallery.
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