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Ray Martin's heartbreak as high-profile figure who shook up Australia's TV industry dies: Reeling news icon issues powerful tribute

Ray Martin has issued a powerful tribute to Jane Hansen.

Ray Martin has issued a powerful tribute to Jane Hansen - a former A Current Affair reporter who was famously among the first to lift the lid on the 'despicable blokey culture' in the commercial TV world. Hansen, aged in her 50s, died on Tuesday evening following a near two-year battle against an aggressive brain tumour, with TV icon Martin telling Daily Mail Australia he was 'shocked and saddened' by her passing. 'I've slept on the floor in the bombed-out 'sniper side' at the Holiday Inn, Sarajevo, in the middle of the Bosnian war, bribed murderous Iraqi officials to extend my visa in Baghdad,' she recalled.

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