Radio debut for Sir Robert

Press, 24 March 1988, Page 8

Radio debut for Sir Robert

By

ROBERT LOWE

NZPA | Sydnhy Sir Robert Muldoon will make his Australian radio debut next-week. ; He has been booked [to front a three-hour (molding talk-back programme on Sydney's Radio 2GB on March' 31J The station’s current affairs director, Mr Ron Sneddon, said Sir Robert would be one |of three i former Prime Ministers who would host the 9' [a.mj to noon show next week. On other days, two : former Australian leaders, Mr Gough Whitlam and Mr Malcolm Fraser, would be in front of the microphone. ! Mr [Sneddon said the

main issues Sir Robert would discuss would be Tasman sporting rivalry, “dole-bludgers,” and the politics surrounding the Treaty of Waitangi. “We also hope to get some prominent sports people, two from each side of the Tasman, in the studio! to get a debate going.” - . He said Sir Robert, who will fly to Sydney on March (30, and leave immediately after his show, would hot- receive a fee,! although his, expenses’ would be paid. ‘

: Sir Robert has made regular trips to Sydney, and has formed definite

views about the city. He is reported to have said once, “I've done (business in Sydney over (the years. It’s a bit tough. ilri Sydney they (put up nets at beaches to stop the shimmers attacking the sharks!" Sir Robert, Mr Whitlam and Mr Fraser will fill a gap left by the departure from ! 2GB earlier- this month of the man described) |in Australia jas having "the world’s costliest] tonsils.”

i A -talk-back host John Laws, Was paid a (reported !'sAust2: million and given I a • share of Rridid‘ ■ 2UE, I when he joined) the rival | station! owned ) by Alan ) I Bond, pn March 7J ' |i