Ormsby Cecil Wilkins was an Australian radio presenter.
10 Facts About Ormsby Wilkins
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Ormsby Wilkins is most notable for being the first person in Australia to take talkback calls when the format was made legal in 1967.
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Just after midnight on 17 April 1967, Ormsby Wilkins took the first legal talkback calls on Australian radio after the restrictions were lifted.
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Ormsby Wilkins was awarded $10,000 in damages after it was found Wilkins had deliberately imputed Morosi as an undesirable, immoral and promiscuous woman who had misconducted herself with her employer.
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Ormsby Wilkins enjoyed an amicable relationship with the Jewish community in Australia who held him in high regard.
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Ormsby Wilkins was regularly invited to speak at various functions.
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Ormsby Wilkins openly criticised organisations such as the Melbourne Club for their policy not to admit Jews.
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Ormsby Wilkins criticised the Federal Government's decision to allow South Africa to send an all-white football team to Australia for the 1971 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia.
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Ormsby Wilkins described Australia's international image being vulnerable due to the White Australia policy and the poor treatment of Indigenous Australians.
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Ormsby Wilkins died at the age of 59 on 19 February 1976 following a battle with lung cancer for which he underwent an operation in November 1975.