George Negus

Now, what is not helped by any of this? And I'll call out to people if you remember this, because I can't work out whether this happened the week before this game or actually was played on TV the weekend of the game.

Mark Jackson had done an interview with 60 Minutes, when 60 Minutes was the biggest television show in Australia with George Negus yeah with George Negus and he is self-promoting because that's what he was self-promoting who he you know what he stood for in a range of things but that also included violence in footy

So Negus asks, would it upset you if you thumped someone and really hurt them? Jackson, no.

Why? You could, Jackson.

Hope it's on the mend and you're getting around as you would wish.

Spiro you nailed it I asked the question what were you doing where were you around this time 1970 on this day if you like 1970 come back and I'll let you know why I'm asking that question because I think particularly people in Melbourne but certainly around Australia would remember this day begrudgingly and with memories of who how why where and when we'll do that next Australia overnight Anniversary today, the passing of George Negus, Australian journo, 82.

When he passed away, Alzheimer's, a battle with Alzheimer's, going back to 2024.

And when you think about the work that he did all those years ago, George Negus, 60 minutes, as good as a presenter for 60 minutes at that time, as you can imagine, from 79 to 86.

Then the Today Australia Dateline, the project did lots of things.

George Negus, fondly loved and remembered.

George Negus, we lost him on this day back in 2024.

We're loving instrumentals.

And so we'd really swotted very hard for this.

So sat the exam, and then the ABC took some time, then whittled it down to 20 people, and we were flown to Sydney, uh, to have a panel interview, and I will never forget George Negus and Jennifer Byrne-

Oh, wow

... were on the panel, and I was just absolutely beside myself.

Yeah.

And particularly then like George Negus was, you know, had, was going off and interviewing Colonel Gaddafi, you know, in, in Libya, sitting down face to face, like they were doing huge, big, you know, ambitious stories.

It was like a big show at the time.

Yeah.

It's kind of like the project model.

So remember when they had George Negus tonight? Well, George Negus was the host and then they followed it up with the project and then we had hosts on Monday to Thursday.

We had different hosts on Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

I love that model because it was always the project.

Yep.

60 Minutes has made household names of people like Yarn Avant, Ray Martin, Ian Leslie, George Negus.

And, Andrew, you mentioned earlier that what 60 Minutes did was really taking cameras to the rest of the world.

Yeah, what I think they did different to the American 60 Minutes is that there was this unlimited travel budget that no other show had ever had on Nine before where they could go off and film something in real time and really take you to a place of the world that you would never, ever usually see.

Coffee with George is what I'm having.

George Negus, that is.

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