Gary Adshead

Perth

Drive Presenter at ABC Radio PERTH

Four decades in journalism and broadcasting. 720 ABC Perth Drive program host. Tune in 3pm weekdays.

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Opinion: Cook’s team punches down on big calls

3 weeks ago | businessnews.com.au | Gary Adshead

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"This is an incredibly disturbing but isolated incident" Football West CEO responds to reports a spectator allegedly held 11 year old Perth player by the neck. - ABC listen

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Gary Adshead

Football West says it's investigating allegations a 46-year-old spectator grabbed a young boy around the neck during a soccer game in Perth's north. WA Police have accused the man from Waterman's Bay of approaching the Mindarie player at Abbeville Park in Mindarie on Sunday afternoon. The man - who is the father of a child from an opposing soccer club - has been charged with "impeding another person's breathing or blood circulation by applying pressure to the neck".
Opinion: Roger Cook on tightrope over emissions call

1 month ago | businessnews.com.au | Gary Adshead

OPINION: The premier is at odds with his federal counterparts and his side’s platform for climate action.
Perth man Matthew Radalj spent years behind bars in a Chinese prison, hear him share his story

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Gary Adshead

Perth man Matthew Radalj spent years inside a Chinese prison in Beijing, after he claims he was wrongly convicted. Now released, he tells Gary Adshead what the experience was like.
City of Nedlands council threatened with dismissal over 'very obvious dysfunction'

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Gary Adshead |Andrea Mayes |Joshua Cahill

The City of Nedlands, one of Perth's wealthiest western suburbs enclaves, could be placed into administration for its "repeated poor behaviour", Local Government Minister Hannah Beazley has warned. Ms Beazley told ABC Radio Perth she was "at the end of my tether" at the council's "very obvious dysfunction", including compliance and transparency issues, and its failure to get enough councillors to attend meetings so resolutions could be passed.
Opinion: Political posturing all about delivery

1 month ago | businessnews.com.au | Gary Adshead

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Dutton more Shorten than Morrison

2 months ago | businessnews.com.au | Gary Adshead

A couple of unforced errors by the federal Liberals have altered the dynamics of the election campaign.
Hundreds of magpies across Perth and WA's south west have been struck down with a mystery illness. Researchers want to find out what it is

2 months ago | abc.net.au | Gary Adshead

Researchers at Murdoch University have set out to find the cause of a paralysis syndrome, affecting magpies across Perth and Western Australia's south west. Dr Bethany Jackson from the Harry Butler Institute told Gary Adshead on DRIVE the impacted birds show symptoms such as weakness, an inability to stand – and in more advanced cases, an inability to lift their heads or breathe!Dr Jackson said local wildlife rescue organisations were admitting up to 200 birds per month over the summer period.
Opinion: Poll palava points to planning problems in WA election

2 months ago | businessnews.com.au | Gary Adshead

OPINION: The WA Electoral Commission has emerged with its reputation bruised and questions to answer after the March 8 election.
Election analysis: Cautious conservatives will rue timidity

Mar 19, 2025 | businessnews.com.au | Gary Adshead

OPINION: The Liberals did not bring enough firepower to the campaign in policy or personnel terms.