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Jon Faine is an Australian radio presenter and former lawyer. He was born on 21 September 1956 in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is best known for his long-running morning show on ABC Radio Melbourne, which he hosted from 1997 to 2019. Faine studied law at the University of Otago in New Zealand, and was admitted to the bar in 1980. He moved to Australia in 1983 and worked as a lawyer in Melbourne for several years before joining the ABC in 1989. Faine hosted the morning show on ABC Radio Melbourne from 1997 to 2019. He also hosted the ABC's national current affairs program, The World Today, from 2000 to 2002. Faine is a regular guest on ABC TV's Q&A program and has written for The Age newspaper. He is also a regular guest on ABC Radio National's Saturday Extra program. Faine is married to lawyer and former ABC journalist, Virginia Trioli. They have two children. As of 2021, Jon Faine's net worth is estimated to be approximately $2 million.

Popular As Jonathan Eric Faine
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Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 21 September, 1956
Birthday 21 September
Birthplace Dunedin, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealand

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2019

In 2019, Faine announced his intention to leave the ABC after 23 years presenting the morning program with ABC Melbourne. In May 2019, ABC announced that Virginia Trioli would be leaving the News Breakfast television program to replace Faine. Faine's last day of presenting was 11 October 2019. The program was broadcast from the Melbourne Town Hall in front of a live audience.

Faine was made a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) on 26 January 2019.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-21/abc-melbourne-host-jon-faine-announces-retirement-at-end-of-2019/10723618

2015

Faine likened the Abbott Government's review of the ABC and SBS to Vladimir Putin's Russia. In a 2015 interview with Liberal prime minister Tony Abbott, Faine criticised Abbott for saying that taxpayers should not have to fund "lifestyle choices" and asked why the prime minister kept "saying stupid things" and suggested Abbott was a bully: "You yourself admit you have an aggressive streak - isn't that the core of bullying?"

2013

After a leak of ABC presenters' salaries in 2013, Faine disclosed his taxpayer-funded salary to be $300,000 per annum in 2014.

Faine was reprimanded by the ABC for interviews that he conducted in 2013 regarding the AWU affair, in which he was found to have demonstrated bias in his handling of interviews defending Labor prime minister Julia Gillard's involvement in the AWU's slush fund scandal.

2011

In 2011, Faine was included by Australian Jewish News in its list of the 50 most influential members of the Jewish community in Australia with strong connections to Israel.

2008

Together with his son Jack, who was aged 19 at the time, Faine used his long service leave in 2008 to drive overland from Melbourne to London, United Kingdom.

1996

From 1996 to 2019, Faine hosted ABC's local radio morning program, from 8:30 am to 12:00 noon in Melbourne, including the Conversation Hour which is heard across Victoria from 11:00 am. He is known for vigorous debate and for fostering conversation on politics, law, arts and sport. His highest ratings peaked in September 2002 and in 2003 he received the ABC Local Radio "Broadcaster of the Year" award. He has also worked on scripts for a number of television and feature films.

1980

Faine began his professional career practising as a solicitor in various Melbourne law firms, combining work with his love of cars by serving as a motoring reporter for a lawyers' magazine. He acted pro-bono for the Australian Democrats in a number of Court of Disputed Returns matters in the late 1980s with success. In 1989 he began working in radio, producing and hosting The Law Report on the Radio National channel of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and, since that time, has worked on various ABC radio and television programs.

1979

Faine graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1979 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1981 at Monash University, where he worked as an intern at the Springvale Legal Centre, and is promoted as a prominent alumnus on the university's website. After graduation, he began his professional career as a solicitor at the Melbourne law firms Barker Harty and Co, and Holding Redlich and Co, and then at the Fitzroy Legal Service.

1968

Faine was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. He emigrated to Sydney with his parents at a young age. Later they moved to Melbourne in 1968, where he attended Melbourne High School.

1956

Jonathan Eric Faine AM (born 21 September 1956) is an Australian former radio presenter who hosted the morning program on ABC Radio Melbourne in Melbourne. Faine is recognised as a prominent and influential member of the Australian Jewish community.