8:30 am - 12 pm weekdays. Neil is one of Australia's most experienced journalists with success in newspapers, radio and television. He was one of the youngest editors of a daily metropolitan newspaper, The Herald.
Neil was also a reporter, columnist and news executive at The Age for 16 years, including four years as sports editor. He has also worked for Time Magazine and presented documentaries and his own talkback TV program on both the Nine and Ten networks.
He began at 3AW on weekends and Drive in 1987. In 1990 he moved to the morning program where he has dominated the ratings ever since. A little bit about Neil Mitchell What was your first job? As a schoolboy, I delivered morning newspapers, which proved two things: I love newspapers and hate getting up early.
Now, 40 years later, I find I have spent my life around newspapers and have been required to get out of bed at a ridiculous hour since 1984. What is your favourite on-air moment thus far? A three-year-old boy called Tyler Fishlock was about to lose both eyes to cancer and we were trying to fulfil his last-minute dreams. His mum was talking to me, crying softly.
In the background, I heard the child say "Don't cry mummy, it will all be OK" What is your most embarrassing on-air moment? The most embarrassing and instructive moment was at the very beginning when I was ranting on about some editorial point, thumping the desk and asking for calls… when a caller rang and said "…Neil.
Get your hand off it…" They were right, and I learnt from it. If you could interview anyone (living or dead) who would it be? Richard Nixon. The man was incorrigible and unashamed.
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Neil Mitchell - Podcasts
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'The community doesn't want it': MP says massive sheep farm shouldn't go ahead
Jan 15, 2021 | 03:02 amSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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3AW Mornings with Tony Jones, 15th January 2021
Jan 15, 2021 | 01:31 amSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Italy begins huge Calabrian mafia trial
Jan 15, 2021 | 01:23 amSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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'Everyone is keen to get it up and running': State government push for more international students
Jan 15, 2021 | 00:46 amSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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'Bold and innovative' push to ban smoking in all public spaces in Mildura
Jan 14, 2021 | 23:44 pmRadiation oncologist and long-time anti-tobacco campaigner, Dr Bronwyn King, says it's a "very bold and innovative" idea.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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'I felt the whole house shake': Earthquake rocks regional Victorian towns
Jan 14, 2021 | 21:50 pmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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3AW Mornings with Tony Jones, 14th January 2021
Jan 14, 2021 | 01:26 amSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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HECS-style loans proposed for small business
Jan 14, 2021 | 01:12 amSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Mask restrictions and office worker limits to be relaxed from Monday
Jan 14, 2021 | 00:25 amTony Jones takes part of Premier Daniel Andrews' press conference announcing changes to mask and office rules.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Treasurer urges public to spend to avoid 'fiscal cliff'
Jan 13, 2021 | 23:45 pmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.