Jonathan Eric Faine was born on 21 September 1956 and is an Australian former radio presenter who hosted the morning program on ABC Radio Melbourne in Melbourne.
16 Facts About Jon Faine
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Jon Faine emigrated to Sydney with his parents at a young age.
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Jon Faine graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1979 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1981 at Monash University, where he worked as an intern at the Springvale Legal Centre, and is promoted as a prominent alumnus on the university's website.
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Jon Faine began his professional career practising as a solicitor in various Melbourne law firms, combining work with his love of cars by serving as a motoring reporter for a lawyers' magazine.
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Jon Faine acted pro-bono for the Australian Democrats in a number of Court of Disputed Returns matters in the late 1980s with success.
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From 1996 to 2019, Jon Faine hosted ABC's local radio morning program, from 8:30 am to 12:00 noon in Melbourne, including the Conversation Hour which was heard across Victoria from 11:00 am.
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Jon Faine is known for vigorous debate and for fostering conversation on politics, law, arts and sport.
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Jon Faine worked on scripts for a number of television and feature films.
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In 2011, Jon Faine was included by Australian Jewish News in its list of the 50 most influential members of the Jewish community in Australia with strong connections to Israel.
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In 2019, Jon Faine announced his intention to leave the ABC after 23 years presenting the morning program with ABC Melbourne.
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Together with his son Jack, who was aged 19 at the time, Jon Faine used his long service leave in 2008 to drive overland from Melbourne to London, United Kingdom.
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Jon Faine has declared himself as an atheist and that his worldview is one of secular humanism.
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Jon Faine was made a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia on 26 January 2019.
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Jon Faine is claimed by some to be a former member of the Australian Labor Party, although he reportedly has never been a member of any political party.
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Jon Faine was reprimanded by the ABC for interviews that he conducted in 2013 regarding the AWU affair, in which he was found to have demonstrated bias in his handling of interviews defending Labor prime minister Julia Gillard's involvement in the AWU's slush fund scandal.
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Jon Faine likened the Abbott government's review of the ABC and SBS to Vladimir Putin's Russia.