\n\t\t\t\t\tFormer Labor senator and powerbroker who anchored political programmes following his political career,\u00a0has died.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Former Labor senator and powerbroker Graham Richardson who anchored political programmes following his political career,\u00a0 has died, aged 76.<\/p>\n
He died at 3.50am on Saturday, following weeks of influenza and pneumonia, his wife and son told 2GB Breakfast host Ben Fordham, who announced the news.<\/p>\n
Fordham recounted: \u201cWhen he had his big health challenge, he said to his wife Amanda, \u2018I\u2019m going to live till I see Darcy finish exams and his HSC\u2019. Darcy did his last HSC exam on Thursday, which was his French exam. And Richo\u2019s died this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Richardson served as a cabinet minister in the Hawke and Keating governments and was a Labor senator for NSW for the duration of his parliamentary career.<\/p>\n
In his post-politics life, he became a lobbyist, radio talkback host, writer and political commentator , with Seven in 2010 on Seven News, Sunrise and The Morning Show, then from 2011 with SKY News.<\/p>\n
He anchored his own political show Richo from 2011 then Richo + Jones with Alan Jones from 2014 to 2021. He also previously appeared with Nine.<\/p>\n
In 2022 he was one of 121 Australians, including defence officials, businessmen and reporters and editors blacklisted according to the Russian foreign ministry. No shame, it was illustrious company of top journos and forward-thinkers.<\/p>\n
In 2020, Richardson was made an Officer of the Order of Australia.<\/p>\n
Paul Whittaker , Chief Executive Officer, SKY News Australia said, \u201cGraham Richardson or \u2018Richo\u2019 as he was affectionately known to so many, was one of the sharpest political minds in Australian politics.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring his almost 15 years delivering his frank yet charismatic commentary on political affairs on SKY News, Richo added an insight, expertise, and depth that enhanced political discourse in Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis uncompromising style and enviable ability to call the election result, often before anyone else, cemented him as a key fixture of SKY News\u2019 election night coverage, while his contributions across the network helped shape SKY News into the leading destination for live political news coverage it is today.<\/p>\n
\u201cRicho was an inspiring and loyal member of the SKY News team whose presence in the newsroom, and on our screens, will be greatly missed.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur thoughts are with his wife Amanda and son D\u2019Arcy at this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source: news.com.au<\/a>, Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Labor senator and powerbroker who anchored political programmes following his political career,\u00a0has died. Former Labor senator and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-270449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}