Former Labor leader Simon Crean, dead at 74.
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/former-labor-leader-simon-crean-dies-aged-74/news-story/edefc8f0834e1931d426f34b16c8dfbd
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Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons singer marries again at 89.
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Former Fitzroy player and high profile recruiter Matt Rendell died today, after suffering a heart attack while walking his dog last weekend.
Former South Melbourne player, coach and president, businessman, and AFL commissioner Graeme John passed away yesterday. It was acknowledged by AFL commission chairman Richard Goyder during his address at the Hall of Fame ceremony last night.
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Sad. 
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Pickle Me Grandmother!!! So Sad.
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Yep… I hope Sister Maria can do the funeral. Used to love that show.
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Queensland tennis champion Ash Barty and husband Garry Kissick have announced the arrival of a gorgeous baby boy, Hayden https://t.co/6r4AkOyzIj pic.twitter.com/FRlTPVR5aW
— The Courier-Mail (@couriermail) July 4, 2023
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Her tragic passing is another reminder that mental health, particularly depression, is not a small matter and people who require support should reach out as soon as possible to their families, friends, colleagues and professionals. Keeping it all in will not end tragically.
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Rest in Peace.
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“Congratulations to this beautiful mama @meghantrainor who just had her second baby!” Coulter began.
“The little guy was in her belly while we were filming @australianidol and we got to watch the bump growing every week!”
“So happy for you guys xxx.”
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The MAFS alum posted a hilarious announcement to his Instagram page overnight, announcing, “Baby Seebohm due September” .
The video shows the couple wearing white shirts and denim jeans, frolicking along the waterside as Ryan, 34, acts like he is the one carrying the child.
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Australian meteorologist and first television weatherman Alan Wilkie has died at the age of 94.
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See news report:
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Of course the news outlets have this wrong. TCN9 had been presenting weather forecasts before ABC TV began, though it is likely Nine didn’t employ actual meteorologists. Certainly, in Melbourne, HSV7 had an actress, Mary Parker, as its first weather presenter, debuting the night before ABN2 in Sydney began.
But even if it was in regard to meteorologists and/or ABC weather presenters, technically, he was not the first. Alan Wilkie was one of a number of meteorologists seconded by the BOM to ABC to present the weather. Presenting on ABC’s first TV bulletin on 6 November 1956 was Allan Rainbird. (note the difference in spelling of first names)
Rainbird, Ron Sheard and Wilkie presented the weather for ABC on a rotational basis. The BOM and ABC soon came to a similar arrangement in Melbourne when ABV2 began.
Sources:
- The ABC Weekly Vol. 18 No. 44 (3 November 1956)
- the book 50 Years: Aunty’s Jubilee, 2006.
- History of the Bureau of Meteorology Federation and Meteorology, Memories of the Bureau, 1946 to 1962, page 1028
By 1955 Allan was a full-time member of the forecasting team which by that time included Alan Wilkie (brother of Ray) and Ron Sheard, who, as mentioned earlier, together with Harold Bond and Allan comprised the team from the Sydney Divisional Office who made history by being the first Bureau weather presenters on the ABC.
Allan recalls that the Sydney ABC TV station ABN 2 was officially opened on the eve of Melbourne Cup day by Prime Minister R. G. Menzies in November 1956. Regular transmissions began on Melbourne Cup day with Allan presenting the weather program immediately following the 7 pm news. It says a great deal about Allan’s self-confidence and ability to communicate that he was chosen by the ABC to be one of the Bureau presenters and that he made history in presenting the very first broadcast by a member of the Bureau.
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