1. Mike Carlton formerly co-hosted the daily breakfast program on Sydney radio station 2UE with Peter FitzSimons and later Sandy Aloisi.
21 Facts About Mike Carlton
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Mike Carlton was known for his criticism of conservative public figures such as former prime minister John Howard, former Liberal leader Alexander Downer, former radio announcer Alan Jones, and conservative governments, including the United States' Reagan and Bush administrations.
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Mike Carlton's father, James Mike Carlton, was an athlete who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.
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Mike Carlton would have been selected for the 1932 Olympics but left sport to become a Catholic priest.
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Mike Carlton fell in love with the woman and left the priesthood.
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Mike Carlton has two children with his first wife, Kerri.
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Mike Carlton met his second wife, Morag, when he was 52 and she was 23, working as his producer at ABC Radio.
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Mike Carlton began his career with the Australian Broadcasting Commission as a cadet journalist in 1963, aged 17.
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Mike Carlton moved to his first radio program as host at Sydney commercial station 2GB in the early 1980s, this is where "Friday News Review" was born.
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Mike Carlton dominated morning radio for a number of years until Alan Jones was moved into the breakfast slot at 2UE in March 1988, and Mike Carlton's ratings started to falter.
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Mike Carlton later wrote a novel set at a London talk radio station called Off the Air, which became a best-seller in Australia in the late 1990s.
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In 1994, Mike Carlton returned to Sydney to host a morning program on music station Mix 106.5.
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Mike Carlton then moved to the drive slot at 702 ABC Sydney.
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Mike Carlton hosted 2UE's drivetime program for a number of years, before moving to the breakfast timeslot.
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On 17 July 2007, Mike Carlton made comments regarding his late rival.
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On 18 September 2009, Mike Carlton retired from his long-running 2UE Breakfast show after over 26 years on Australian morning radio citing an unwillingness to continue with early morning hours and a desire to spend more time with his family and newborn son.
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Mike Carlton was a columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald, initially being sacked from the position on 29 August 2008, for refusing to write his column during a strike by journalists at Fairfax Media.
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The Sydney Morning Herald published an article by Mike Carlton entitled "Israel's rank and rotten fruit is being called fascism" in July 2014.
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Mike Carlton responded to criticism of the article in a way which he later described as "probably foolish".
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Mike Carlton resigned from the paper when he was told he would be suspended from the paper for four to six weeks while further action was being considered.
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Mike Carlton said he believed the paper "buckled" to pressure from pro-Israel campaigners and from News Corporation newspapers, which, he said hated him "for all the usual reasons".