September 16, 2026
Universities had been long renowned for ‘skit’ or parody newspapers. During my brief tertiary career at the University of Melbourne (1975-77), The Uni Star made its debut. And I guess I could have perhaps been slightly responsible. Maybe. Farrago was the weekly campus newspaper at Melbourne, and in 1976 it was under the joint (good…
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ustralia had an unlikely TV star and Gold Logie winner in Norman Gunston in 1975. The Gunston character first appeared as a minor character to appear in a single sketch in the second series of the cult Australian TV comedy series The Aunty Jack Show in 1973. Cast member Garry McDonald portrayed Gunston as a dull and…
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As an ambitious 18-year-old journalist, I requested an interview with Australia’s top-rating TV star of the time, Ernie Sigley. It was 1975 and Sigley was besting the ratings with a twice-weekly variety program at GTV-9 Melbourne. Sigley was not granting any interviews at the time … except this one to me, organ-ised through the channel’s…
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