Gabe McGrath

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🦘Aussie 📝 Writer 📻 Radio Creative 🎤 Writing a memoir about Melbourne’s youth-run Hitz FM. 🔊 "Those pesky 90s kids that turned Australian radio upside down."

A screenshot of the Mumbrella 'best of the week' email.

Features the following text: "Funny to think that 16 years ago, the biggest problem Nine had with Karl Stefanovic was a lack of personality.

In 2010, somebody cruelly (but amusingly) updated Wikipedia: “The Nine Network is probably best known as the leading equal opportunity broadcaster in Australia, after they became the first station to employ a robot - Karl Stefanovic.”

A screenshot of an internal blog search results box in 2026... yet users are searching for "2027" posts?!?!

A photo of Doughheads "Gaytime" doughnut, taken by TripAdvisor user Pdddownunder.

Fluffy, brioche dough filled with honeycomb custard, dipped in milk chocolate ganache and topped with honey biscuit crumble

A photograph of satirist John Clarke whose interview sketch "the front fell off" is a beloved piece of Australian comedy.
It's about a real maritime incident involving an oil tanker and very lax safety requirements.

A cardboard box full of packing peanuts, on a desk.

Ticket stub:

Newcastle Writers Festival presents
"Discipline"
Randa Abdel-Fattah in Conversation

Saturday 28th March, 2026

An animated GIF of writers Kathy Lette & Yumi Stynes dancing off the stage, to audience applause, at the 2026 Newcastle (Australia) Writers Festival.

Screenshot of Newcastle Civic Theatre ticket buying window with "Card type not supported" when an ING Visa card was used.

A clip of Dobkeratops, the first boss in 1987 videogame R-Type. It's a disgusting orange alien with a green monster bursting from its stomach, spitting laser bullets. Its tail flicks menancingly towards the player's tiny spaceship.

A photo of the TV soap "Neighbours" with the character Daphne in a coma after a vehicle accident. "Gail" is by her bedside.

Television script:

[Extreme closeup]

Paul Robinson stares into the distance.
He's thinking back over a lifetime of adventures in Erinsborough's most famous cul-de-sac.
He smiles to himself as he thinks of the good times.

[Camera tracks back, revealing he's sitting in a departure gate. ]

[PA announcer] "Final call, Mr Robinson, flying Erinsborough to the Gold Coast..."

[Paul] "Well, I guess I'm the last one."

[Paul walks down the aerobridge; fade to black]

Screenshot from the Wayback Machine of the Australian Radio Hall of Fame in 2014.

Text refererences Peter Harvie but the headline refers to Peter Harvey.

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Crowd at Palestinian peace protest, Civic Park Newcastle.
August 24, 2025

Sam Seaborn: Why are you so bent on countering these idiot leaflets?

Bruno Gianelli: Because I'm tired of working for candidates who make me think that I should be embarrassed to believe what I believe, Sam! I'm tired of getting them elected!

We all need some therapy, because somebody came along and said, "Liberal' means soft on crime, soft on drugs, soft on Communism, soft on defense, and we're gonna tax you back to the Stone Age because people shouldn't have to go to work if they don't want to!"

And instead of saying, "Well, excuse me, you right-wing, reactionary, xenophobic, homophobic, anti-education, anti- choice, pro-gun, Leave It To Beaver trip back to the Fifties...!", we cowered in the corner, and said, "Please. Don't. Hurt. Me."

A photograph of Australian senate candidate Veronica Hope. The headline is "The state tried to take her cafe... not today.". She is wearing a bikini and holding a water pistol. She has a serious look on her face. The text at the bottom of the image says "Vote [1] Senate - Veronica Hope".

Australian Writer and comedian John Safran at a book signing with Gabe McGrath. Gabe is holding John's new book 'Squat' - out now.

A magazine clipping with the title HORNSWOGGLED and a portrait of actor Don Knotts as Barney Fife in the TV series The Andy Griffith Show