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For 27 years, the Kyle and Jackie O Show indulged Australia’s most vulgar, sexist impulses

  • Written by Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
A blonde woman and a man sit at radio microphones wearing over-ear headphones.

The astonishingly successful Kyle and Jackie O radio show on KIIS FM is dead.

Jackie “O” Henderson resigned and Kyle Sandilands has been suspended for 14 days after he attacked her on air, accusing her of underperforming and being “off with the fairies” in what he said was her fixation with astrology.

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