The last I heard… he was Sevens Asia correspondent. Then I think he may have had a stint at CNN.
Class talent.
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He’s also done work for Al Jazeera and SBS
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I think I do remember him covering drug cases involving Australians in Asia in the noughties - most notably Schapelle Corby and the Bali Nine, as well as Van Tuong Nguyen in Singapore.
For a while in the past decade, Nine also had Renae Henry as its Asia correspondent, a role which I think is also discontinued.
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Stumbled across this segment from the Today show in 2003 wherein there was a live birth on air. Wonder if something similar has been repeated since, which I doubt.
On a side note, then-Today newsreader Sharyn Ghidella celebrated her birthday on that day (she would’ve turned 36 I think). Another former Today newsreader, Ian Ross, was only days away from beginning his stint on Seven News in Sydney.
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In 2019 Seven presented Operation: Live, a televised account of a Cesarean section birth — claimed by host Melissa Doyle as a first for Australian television, although the “live” component was taking some artistic licence as the actual procedure took place well before airtime.
Of course, neither was a “first” for TV as back in 1965, ABC presented a film documentary Birth, from ABC producer Jim White who filmed the procedure around the birth of his second child.
This video was an excerpt taken from the 1996 special 40 Years In The Making: ABC TV Melbourne.
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I wonder if ABC Retrofocus has restored that Doco. Fingers crossed perhaps.
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Millennium by Network Music Ensemble. Used in this Channel Seven Gold Coast UHF Notice Promo back in 1989.
Promo
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Anyone else see the 7 logo in there?
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Yes, a squashed one though!
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Flamenco Latino by Taking Back Winter. Used in the background of this Our House segment with Reg Livermore back in the Late 90’s.
Our House segment
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Random history or obscure history? 
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Not necessarily TV history, but TVArk is back as of today
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A TVT-6 ID. Could be from the early to mid 1980s.
YouTube: Tasmanian History Channel
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Came across a few more promos
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Oh wow I had completely forgotten that between Southern Cross Network News and Southern Cross Nightly News there was Southern Cross Television News. Will have to check my poorly labeled VHS pile to see if I can dig up a bulletin.
Also I have one of those Southern Cross Television stickers somewhere in my safety deposit closet!
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That Southern Cross Television News thing was kinda half arsed. It was still called SC Network News but the Supers during the program said SC Television News. I don’t think there was ever an opener with Television in the title.
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Seems totally unnecessary to put the word “Television” in the title of a news bulletin. I don’t recall that being done anywhere else.
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Dog Claymation - Down on the Corner.
YouTube: agentdefault
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It was when they changed from Southern Cross Network to Television. A soft launch I suppose.
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