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The marine biologist
Al tells a marine biologist she’s sure she’ll be eaten by a shark. It does not land.
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Ali Plath
Ten years of breakfast radio and a 2024 ACRA for Best On Air Team.
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Ten years of breakfast radio and a 2024 ACRA for Best On Air Team.
Al tells a marine biologist she’s sure she’ll be eaten by a shark. It does not land.
Al reveals her pop wore an absolutely rotten wig. It ran to three parts.
Al announces she looks sexy in glasses. Dave demands a live reveal.
Car keys left in Brisbane, a plane about to leave, and Jetstar to talk round.
Al says she never forgets a face. Dave sets out to prove her wrong.
Al’s daughter rings in to reveal how her mum caught her kids lying.
Al takes up cricket and, eventually, gets runs on the board.
Al takes the plunge in Hobart’s midwinter solstice swim.
Ali started in stand-up comedy, and it shows on air.
She was a Queensland state finalist in Raw Comedy in 2015. On breakfast radio that comes through as quick reactions and a willingness to be the punchline, from Wig-gate to the Dark Mofo nude swim.
Filling in on the Gold Coast’s market-leading breakfast show.
Co-host with Sean ‘Flan’ Flanagan and Peter ‘Spida’ Everitt. The team won the ACRA for Best On Air Team (Provincial) in 2024.
Picked from twenty on-air pairings in a six-week search to co-host with Steve ‘Bilko’ Bilokin.
Her first breakfast role, with Hobart radio veteran Dave Noonan, in a city where she knew nobody. The show fronted Give Me 5 for Kids every year and ran Hobart’s first International Women’s Day radio special.
Community radio first, then commercial radio from the ground up.
It started with Al swearing Hobart is a magical place where coincidences find you. Listeners rang in with their own, and the calls kept coming until the final week of the show.
The morning Al first put her theory to Hobart.
Chris rings in with a coincidence the show rates a perfect score.
Glenn from Sandford shares the most emotional Hobart Effect of the lot.
Hosting takes the same skills as breakfast: read the room and keep the run sheet moving.
Repeat host of the city’s business awards night.
The transcript opens with Al: “Are you there Prime Minister?”