Shane Warne’s management company confirmed his passing in this statement released late on Friday night in Thailand, and in the early hours of Saturday in Australia: Warne was on a vacation on the holiday island of Koh Samui with a group of friends staying in a holiday villa. The man generally regarded as the best spin bowler of all time died in Thailand from a suspected heart attack. “It’s also consistent with the approach taken by many other broadcasters and streaming services, which include similar warnings for content that contains potentially offensive language or attitudes,” she said.Sports fans around the world have been shocked at the passing of cricketing superstar Shane Warne. “So if you think they were sensitive back then, we have news for you: we now have warnings about shows starring these awesome Aussie characters.”Īn ABC spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia that “the use of warnings about content of this nature is consistent with ABC’s editorial guidelines”. “Don’t worry Hoges, there are still a few galahs around and the ABC is proving it in 2022 with the Parky’s show warnings,” he told his audience.
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‘Maybe we’ll sit there and say: ‘Ah yes, I know a galah like that’.’įordham said this clipping - or anything else he might find in Parkinson’s interview series - shouldn’t offend anyone. ‘You never get anything from sending Australians up there. “I put in a minute of this program, say Greek, Italian, Poms or Eskimo, and you get 300,000 calls,” he says. Parkinson: ‘Do you use your feminine charms when dealing with men?’ “If you don’t like them, you’ve got a terrible problem here.” When Parkinson Buttrose asks if there are a lot of male chauvinistic pigs in Australia, she replies: “Well, some of my best friends are male chauvinistic pigs.” Parkinson: ‘Is that right Mike, good boobs?’ Some of my friends who have worked with Mike over the years have told me that one of the requirements for being a journalist on his team is having good breasts. “I didn’t hear the question before the oinken,” Buttrose replies. Parkinson’s first question to Buttrose is whether she thinks Willesee is a “male chauvinistic swine” after proclaiming her as Australia’s most powerful woman. Legendary media executive Buttrose appears in a 1979 episode with the late television journalist Mike Willesee, who was then the host of A Current Affair. In his interview with Hawke, then ACTU President, Parkinson said of union officials, “They have about as much personality as an Indian in a cigar store.”
It could be that Parkinson, who hosted his eponymous UK talk show from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007, is part of the perceived problem. “Do you really need a warning for that?” asked Fordham. In one episode, Parkinson asked Hawke – a notorious womanizer – whether a newspaper’s claim that he was playing “like a playboy” was true. “It’s just conversations with some great Aussie characters in all their glory, characters that we sadly often miss in the modern uptight world.” “Well, the program is rated PG, so what could possibly be offending? We’ve done our best to find out. Sixteen of the 28 episodes of Parkinson’s in Australia shown between 19 and available on ABC’s iView platform now contain a written and spoken warning “This time it is the ABC in Australia that is taking action,” he said.
Other interview subjects that appear in episodes that should be viewed with caution are Gough Whitlam, Barry Humphries, Rod Laver, Peter Allen, Colleen McCullough, George Negus, Mike Walsh, John Farnham, and Jack Thompson.īroadcaster Ben Fordham derided the warnings in its 2GB breakfast program on Friday as “another example of political correctness creeping into our lives”. Installments to get the warning treatment include appearances from former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, the late media mogul Kerry Packer and actor Paul Hogan. The “Viewer Advice” does not specify which guests on each show are likely to be offending or what they might say that is inappropriate.
One of the apparently offensive episodes – all of which are rated PG – shows Parkinson interviewing current ABC chair Ita Buttrose when she was editor of Australian Women’s Weekly and Cleo. Interviews Michael Parkinson conducted with Bob Hawke, Kerry Packer, Peter Allen, Gough Whitlam and Paul Hogan now contain a warning.
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