Wig-gate
Al reveals her pop wore an absolutely rotten wig. It ran to three parts.
Ten years of breakfast radio and a 2024 ACRA for Best On Air Team.
Al reveals her pop wore an absolutely rotten wig. It ran to three parts.
Malcolm Turnbull joins Al and Dave on the Wheelie Bin Walk for Give Me 5 for Kids.
Al says she never forgets a face. Dave sets out to prove her wrong.
The country music star drops into the studio.
Al takes the plunge in Hobart’s midwinter solstice swim.
Will Hodgman hands Dave the top job in Tasmania, for one morning only.
The show chases a rumour that Al appears in the new Thor film.
A whole show from the racecourse for the Royal Hobart Hospital children’s ward.
Al takes up cricket and, eventually, gets runs on the board.
The Brisbane Lions coach, fresh from being named AFL Coach of the Year.
A gold-medal quartet coaches Al before her own performance.
Emma Bygrave and Erin Fazackerley join the show, and listeners share their stories.
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.
Regular features Ali co-hosted on Triple M Hobart.
Started by Al swearing Hobart is a magical place. Listeners rang in with uncanny coincidences right up to the final week.
Ten questions for $1,000. Even Premier Will Hodgman had a go.
Listeners voted for the city’s best pie, coffee, parmi and pub.
School kids told their best jokes and Al picked a winner. Some mornings she couldn’t.
The week’s first gripe, from fuel prices to click and collect.
Dave reads out half a statistic. Hobart guesses the rest.
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?”