8:30 am - 12 pm weekdays. Neil is one of Australia's most experienced journalists with success in newspapers, radio and television. He was one of the youngest editors of a daily metropolitan newspaper, The Herald.
Neil was also a reporter, columnist and news executive at The Age for 16 years, including four years as sports editor. He has also worked for Time Magazine and presented documentaries and his own talkback TV program on both the Nine and Ten networks.
He began at 3AW on weekends and Drive in 1987. In 1990 he moved to the morning program where he has dominated the ratings ever since. A little bit about Neil Mitchell What was your first job? As a schoolboy, I delivered morning newspapers, which proved two things: I love newspapers and hate getting up early.
Now, 40 years later, I find I have spent my life around newspapers and have been required to get out of bed at a ridiculous hour since 1984. What is your favourite on-air moment thus far? A three-year-old boy called Tyler Fishlock was about to lose both eyes to cancer and we were trying to fulfil his last-minute dreams. His mum was talking to me, crying softly.
In the background, I heard the child say "Don't cry mummy, it will all be OK" What is your most embarrassing on-air moment? The most embarrassing and instructive moment was at the very beginning when I was ranting on about some editorial point, thumping the desk and asking for calls… when a caller rang and said "…Neil.
Get your hand off it…" They were right, and I learnt from it. If you could interview anyone (living or dead) who would it be? Richard Nixon. The man was incorrigible and unashamed.
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Neil Mitchell - Podcasts
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3AW Mornings with Neil Mitchell, 24th June 2022
Jun 24, 2022 | 02:27 amSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Retiring MP Lisa Neville opens up about personal toll of COVID crisis committee
Jun 24, 2022 | 02:02 amLisa Neville has opened up about the toll the COVID crisis committee had on those involved.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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79-year-old woman punched in the face in violent unprovoked Dandenong attack
Jun 24, 2022 | 01:33 amVirginia Beckworth told Neil Mitchell she was on Walker Street in Dandenong on the morning of June 14 when a man approached her and demanded money.When she declined, he told her he was going to give her "one of those one-man king hits", and punched her in the face.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Grill McLachlan: AFL boss turns the tables on Neil Mitchell!
Jun 24, 2022 | 00:53 amThe AFL boss fired a few questions at Neil Mitchell about his on-air clash with Eddie McGuire.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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More businesses 'bombarded' with fridges they didn't ask for
Jun 24, 2022 | 00:52 amBusiness owners across the state have been left baffled after being bombarded with fridges they didn't ask for.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Gillon McLachlan on Jordan De Goey, the AFL's drugs policy and Tasmania
Jun 24, 2022 | 00:47 amThe AFL boss addressed all of footy's burning issues on 3AW.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Five things Neil Mitchell wants to see come from 'chaotic' Andrews cabinet resignations
Jun 23, 2022 | 23:15 pmFour senior Andrews government ministers are expected to step down from the cabinet today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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3AW Mornings with Neil Mitchell, June 23rd, 2022
Jun 23, 2022 | 06:25 amSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Another disturbing attack on a speed camera operator
Jun 23, 2022 | 03:59 amSuperintendent David Griffin, Road Policing Enforcement Division, said it was incredibly worrying.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Explained: The quantum computing breakthrough that will change the world
Jun 23, 2022 | 03:10 amThe company founded by 2018 Australian of the Year, Michelle Simmons, will today unveil the world's first integrated computer circuit built up atom by atom.Dr Gail Iles says it's "absolutely" going to change the world.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.