1. Media icon and 2013 Australian of the Year Ita Buttrose is set to join a new morning show with Network Ten, which will air this year. Former Sunrise executive producer Adam Boland has been hired to organise Ten’s morning programming, including the new panel-based show with Buttrose. In a statement Buttrose said, ‘‘I am looking forward to working with Adam Boland and the Ten team to give Australian audiences a morning show with edge, energy and above all, enjoyment”.
2. The Victorian Labor party is planning to introduce a private member’s bill in State Parliament this week, which will aim to give children conceived through sperm donations the right to know about their biological parent. Fairfax has reported that the state Coalition government is planning to introduce similar legislation later this year.
3. Yet another vessel carrying asylum seekers is suspected to have capsized en route to Australia, and up to 13 people are dead and 55 missing. The death toll has continued to rise. You can read Mamamia’s coverage here.
4. Nelson Mandela is back in hospital with a lung infection. President Jacob Zuma’s office said that the Nobel peace prize winner was in a “serious but stable condition”. Mandela spent 10 days in hospital in March, after he developed pneumonia.
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Love Ita Buttrose. Her program should be interesting and informative viewing , hopefully free of the usual butt kissing that is the staple feature of the Channel Ten panel shows of the past and present.
Looking forward to hearing a variety of topics discussed and a variety of opinions presented.
Oh ! Those 457 visas ! No names mentioned............
Looking forward to Ita on Ten.
I am one of the few people who actually really liked the axed Breakfast show with Paul Henry, Kath Robinson and Magdalena Roze. Once he calmed down a bit and stopped talking over everyone I thought Paul did a good job. He was well across the topic when he interviewed and he asked the hard questions. Magdalena gave the best weather reports. They actually were about the weather!
At least it was interesting. Once they were axed and I had to go back to the other two breakfast shows I have pretty much given up morning TV. They are so boring and predictable and plain uninteresting.
Let's hope Ita can give us an alternative.