International Speakers Group

Perhaps better known as ‘Champs’, Richard Champion played 183 games over a 14-year career including 10 with the Brisbane Bears/Lions. Three times finishing in the top six vote-getters of the club’s best and fairest count, he won Most Professional player and Best Clubman awards with his time at Brisbane. Following his retirement in 2000, Richard[…] Read More

Dark and swarthy, Len Pascoe was the son of Yugoslavian immigrants (his original surname was Durtanovich) who would have won more than 14 Test caps had he not defected to World Series Cricket just as he was making his mark in Australia. A fast bowler with little subtlety but heaps of aggression (he regularly topped[…] Read More

One of Australia’s favourite television and radio personalities, James Brayshaw is the current co-host of The Footy Show with Gary Lyon, a regular football and cricket commentator and the chairman of the North Melbourne Football Club. Brayshaw had a first class cricket career with Western Australia and South Australia that spanned almost a decade, finishing[…] Read More

Hamish McLachlan is the front man for Channel Seven’s Sunday’s morning AFL footy fix AFL Game Day. Hamish delivers a balance of analysis and humour among the sport’s past and present greats. Hamish began commentating horse sports and polo. As an international player and administrator he was able to commentate games locally which led to[…] Read More

Ian Cover is a founding member of the ABC radio team’s The Coodabeen Champions who have been broadcasting their Aussie Rules program for over 30 years. An entertaining and professional MC, he has entertained and thrilled countless corporate, charity and sporting events. Ian’s radio background has helped him get the most out of interviewees and[…] Read More

Australia’s long-time voice of rugby, Gordon Bray, is one of the most experienced commentators in the land with more than four decades in the media. Gordon began a 25-year role with ABC Sport in 1969 as a Specialist Trainee. Following a brief stint with Channel Ten, he switched to Channel Seven where he has spent[…] Read More

Garry Lyon is a standard-setting model of athlete turned media star. After finishing his AFL playing career, Garry was awarded ‘Outstanding Performer of the Year’ by the Australian Football Media Association which was quite an achievement for someone new to the media. The following year he was awarded ‘Special Comments of the Year’. In 2010[…] Read More

Glen Jakovich is an icon of Western Australian Football. His spectacular rise to prominence coincided with that of the West Coast Eagles Football Club in the 1990s. Drafted in 1990, Glen made his name as a centre half back and was instrumental in the Eagles 1992 and 1994 premiership victories. Glen won club best and[…] Read More

Kerri-Anne Kennerley is one of Australia’s most iconic media personalities and has been a favourite with Australian television audiences for more than 30 years, Since her first appearance on television in 1963. She has worked in a variety of different roles in the entertainment industry, from cabaret singer to radio station CEO. Born in Sandgate,[…] Read More

George Donikian is a long-serving and respected news reporter with Network Ten where he currently presents their First at Five bulletins. He commenced his media career in radio, where he worked for several regional stations before moving to Sydney to further his career. His work as an announcer, newsreader and sports reporter on commercial radio[…] Read More

After spending much of her life on stage, and doing a degree in performing arts – Laura McGoldrick first got into broadcasting in 2009. She hosted a children’s TV show called “Push Play” and after catching the eye of Sky Television, Laura started hosting “The Cricket Show”. As well as being a presenter for NZ[…] Read More

Alison is an award-winning sports broadcaster, who was voted Sports Broadcaster of the Year by the Sports Journalists Association (SJA). She is the first woman to commentate regularly on the BBC’s Test Match Special and is Britain’s leading female cricket broadcaster. A trailblazer in her field, she was also the first woman to commentate on international[…] Read More