Amanda Blair (born 1968) is an Australian radio broadcaster, a former columnist with the '' Sunday Mail''. She started her radio career in

Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ...

in 1996 when she made an appearance on the ''

Richard Stubbs Richard Stubbs (born 4 November 1957) is an Australian radio and television presenter, writer and comedian. Career Stubbs was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne, where he was school captain. He then completed a Bachelor of Economics degree ...

Breakfast Show'' on

Triple M Triple M is an Australian commercial radio network owned and operated by Southern Cross Austereo. The network consists of 45 radio stations with flagship stations broadcasting a mainstream/classic rock music format in Sydney, Melbourne, and B ...

to promote her book ''The Essential Pauline Hanson''. She was signed with

Austereo Austereo was an Australian mass media company based in Melbourne. It was founded in 1980 by Paul Thompson, and operated 16 radio stations in metropolitan and regional Australia under the Today Network and Triple M brands. In 2011, the company ...

, and moved to Adelaide to co-host the breakfast show on

SAFM SAFM (official callsign: 5SSA) is a commercial FM radio station owned and operated by Southern Cross Austereo as part of the Hit Network. The station is broadcast to Adelaide, South Australia from studios in Franklin Street. History The stati ...

with Paul Gale and

James Brayshaw James Antony Brayshaw (born 11 May 1967) is an Australian media personality and retired cricketer working in television for the Seven Network and radio for Triple M. For Seven Sport, he hosts and calls Test cricket during summer and Australian ...

in March 1998. In 2007, after a three-year break from radio, she began work at

5AA FIVEAA (pronounced ''Five Double A'') is Adelaide's only commercial Talk radio, talkback radio station. The station has a range of programs including news, sports, current affairs, social issues, football calls, gardening, lifestyle, cars, trave ...

, hosting the afternoon program. She resigned from

in May 2012 to spend more time with her family, with her last show being on 8 June. In 2022, she revealed that she has a foster child, Jayden.

References

External links

Amanda Blair's page at FIVEaa
{{DEFAULTSORT:Blair, Amanda Living people 1968 births Mass media people from Adelaide Australian radio personalities Australian women radio presenters Australian women journalists Journalists from South Australia