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Biography
Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams, AO (born 12 July 1939) is an Australian broadcaster, film producer, writer, social commentator, satirist and left-wing pundit. He is one of guiding lights of the resurgent Australian film industry in the early 1970s. He currently hosts a radio program, Late Night Live, four nights a week on the ABC, and he also writes a weekly column for the News Limited-owned newspaper, The Australian. Adams is (or was) on the Advisory Board of Wikileaks.
Awards & recognition
- Companion of the Order of Australia · 2025
- Centenary Medal · 2001
- Responsibility in Journalism Award · 1996
- Officer of the Order of Australia · 1992
- Member of the Order of Australia · 1987
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- Australian Media Hall of Fame
- Australian National Living Treasure
- honorary doctor of the University of Sydney
- Human Rights Medal
