Who doesn’t like a good oration? In fact I believe, done correctly, there are few things better. But done poorly not only can it be painful but it can leave you with a nasty limp for up to a week. Luckily Julia Gillard’s inaugural Gough Whitlam Oration last week at UWS’s Parramatta campus was an example of the former. And it all hit the headlines; she bagged the greens, she mooted a tuff budget, she made some jokes about the NSW ALP machine… it was great… I’m hosting TVS’s exclusive coverage of the event this Sunday the 10^th at 6.30pm. Don’t miss it!

Last Friday on breakfast I told you 2SER was going completely talk back. That after 30 years we were ditching the music format and taking on the 2UE’s and 2GB’s of the world. We were going to beat David Oldfeld, Roy Hadley and Aaron Jones at their own game. So we played ads for erectile dysfunction and got angry about stuff. And me and the station have been getting calls ever since! So for the record – it was April 1^st! It was a joke. So please stop the emails!

It’s March the 25^th – the day before the state election. And we’ve celebrating by getting you a whole lot of Deputies… we’ve got the Deputy Premier, the Deputy Opposition leader and the Deputy of the Pirate Party David Campbell… we’ve also got Greens MP David Shoebridge… and we’ve sure he must have been a Deputy at some point in time… anyway tune in online or in Sydney on 107.3 FM from 6am-9am… and check out some of our podcasts here…

New South Wale’s Labor Government might be a lot of things – but sexist it is not. In fact it’s notched up a startling range of firsts for women over the last 16 years. It’s leader, Kristina Keneally, is a woman – the first NSW Premier ever. The deputy is a chick too. And they appointed the 1^st female governor. And they doubled the number of those with two X chromosomes that are Judges and school principals… click here to read on…

Imagine knowing you’d saved 5 million lives… how would that feel? Well tomorrow on 2SER we talk to an Aussie woman who has + we ask the shadow education minister some year 9 trivia to see if he’s up to the job + we yak to funnyman Marc Fennell of Hungry Beast fame… 6-9  107.3FM… Check out the podcasts here.

Ok so I just finished a great little show called Small Biz Central. We went out and met a whole lot of businesses and then had a studio panel that gave them some advice and feedback. We did everyone from turbo makers in Ashfield to hairdressers in East Sydney to jumping castle builders in St Mary’s. Business people will love it but also people who are just generally interested in stuff. It’ll air next year on TVS. Stay tuned. Or visit the website.

Once in a generation the kind of visionary comes along who can transcend music, theory, style and even time. Enter Eugene Clifford lead singer of seminal new band Bearhawk. As well as being a musical visionary he’s also the self proclaimed King of all Hipsters. He’s got a way rad site with new music, a hipster advice podcast, and even videos. Check it out here.

Well it’s been a great year for the breakfast show on 2SER. We’ve pretty much had everyone in the studio from Scientologists and sex workers with fresh tattoos on their bottom’s to student activists suing the government and English anti-porn campaigners. We’ve had right-wing columnist Tim Blair, left-wing pin up boy Antony Lowenstein and jailed former bankers who got in bed with Mexican drug cartels… wow this is getting exhausting… but there was also The Chaser’s Dom Knight… anyway there’ll be plenty more next year… so stay tuned to 2SER 107.3 every Wednesday 6am-9am… continuing over the summer break!

Everyone’s doing it, including my Grandma. Underground media is hip again. But this fad might only last a few more months – so jump on board while you still can and subscribe to the undergroundiest media there is – Sydney’s 2SER! Don’t take my word for it though – we’ve had geezers from Get Up, Triple J’s Hack, and even that cuddly curmudgeon Mungo McCallum on the show to tell us why underground news and music are so important. But without the ads comes the need to shake the tin every so often. Come on call 9514 9500 or go to the website – it only costs a few shekels and you get a showbag, instant prizes and the chance to win a holiday a bike and $1500 worth of music! Go on. Don’t tell me you’re not as cool as my Grandma!

Remember that guy who started that ‘Stuff white people like’ blog and a few short years later had a book on the New York Times best seller list and now travels the world being a professional smartarse? Well we’ve got him on the wireless this week + we’re joined in the studio by The Chaser’s Dom Knight who’ll be talking about his new book Comrades and just generally being funny but also oh so intelligent. So tune into 2SER, you know the time… (and here’s a sneak peak of Dom’s book – the first 3 chapters no less!)