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Paul Murphy, host of PM and Dateline, dies aged 77 – ABC News
Hailed by colleagues as a role model and consummate professional, Paul Murphy was in the host chair of PM when Nelson Mandela walked free and protestors occupie…
Australian journalist Paul Murphy, best known for his decade-long tenure as host of the ABC’s PM program as well as being the first host of SBS’s Dateline, has died aged 77.
He was in the host’s chair at PM when Nelson Mandela walked free from Victor Verster prison, and during the Tiananmen Square protests.
Murphy first joined the ABC in the late 1960s and became a political reporter in the Canberra press gallery, before joining the ground-breaking ABC television current affairs show This Day …
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