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CHARLES WOOLEY: George Negus changed Australian television forever in a very subtle way
By dint of George Negus' voice alone, he changed Australian TV forever, Charles Wooley writes.
In the late 1960s, Negus first raised eyebrows in the hallowed corridors of the ABC, housed then at Gore Hill in the upper north shore where people spoke a lot like educated Poms. Unleashing the real Australian accent and broadcasting to the masses in the language they spoke was a great breakthrough - and 60 Minutes was a runaway success. I like to think that in the speechless quiet that enveloped him George was still able to rerun his great adventures in every corner of the world and hear them over and over again in the everyday language and accent of Australia.
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