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Fired for not being âseductiveâ enough, Jane Singleton looks back on her career
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January is generally a big month for former ABC journalist Jane Singleton. Thirty-five Januaries ago, she began work as the first host of the national broadcasterâs nightly current affairs program â the hour-long
7.30 Report (now
7.30) â on her 39th birthday. The show aired a few weeks later on January 28, 1986.
She shares her January 13 birthdate with her once-nemesis, the late Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Queenslandâs longest serving conservative premier, who refused to speak to her on television and ordered his Country Party cabinet to do likewise. Despite his public ban after a particularly bruising interview when she hosted ABCâs