60 Minutes parties on — but where was Mike Munro’s invite?

More than a dozen past and present 60 Minutes reporters convened early in the week to watch a showreel and congratulate each other on the longevity of the show — but one of the program’s long-running reporters was nowhere to be seen.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks as Mike Munro hosts a Q&A at the Lifeline Australia Luncheon in Sydney last week Picture: AAP Image/Joel Carrett

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VETERAN television reporter Mike Munro has looked to be everywhere this month.

If you missed the former A Current Affair host and 60 Minutes’ heavy hitter’s role as master of ceremonies at a Lifeline charity lunch in Sydney where he interviewed Prime Minister Scott Morrison on November 9, there was no missing him the following Friday on stage at the Sydney Opera House where he hosted the state memorial for Clean Up Australia campaigner Ian Kiernan.

By all accounts, Munro did a sterling job at both events after being approached, we understand, through the Saxton Speakers Bureau whose management don’t answer phones on the weekend and couldn’t be reached to confirm their role yesterday.

60 Minutes reporters past and present celebrate 40 years of the current affairs program. Picture: Stuart Bryce

The one place we didn’t see Munro (pictured) last week was at a gathering to (yet again) celebrate the 40th anniversary of the once great Australian edition of news and current affairs program 60 Minutes.

More than a dozen past and present 60 Minutes reporters convened early in the week to watch a showreel and congratulate each other on the longevity of the show that was once a top rater for the Nine Network but sadly no longer is.

Gathered for a group photo (below) were the original lineup — George Negus, Ray Martin and Ian Leslie — as well as later recruits Jana Wendt, Jeff McMullen, Liz Hayes, Charles Wooley, Ellen Fanning, Peter Overton, Michael Usher, Tara Brown, Liam Bartlett, Tom Steinfort, Allison Langdon and Peter Stefanovic.

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Missing was sometime contributor Karl Stefanovic, who looks to have been consigned to the naughty corner after hiring his own independent image consultant, Mitch Catlin, and Munro.

Nine denied rumours Munro, who was once described by former Nine news boss Peter Meakin (also missing from the event) as “a little on the nose, a little out of favour, a little too brash” at Nine, was not invited to the event.

A Nine boss said Munro was unavailable due to his commitments to Foxtel which is strange as Munro is out of contract to Foxtel. His last show for their History channel was The Real Bushrangers which wrapped in 2017.

Munro was part of the 60 Minutes’ team for a decade, from 1986, and spent the best part of a second decade at Nine hosting A Current Affair and This Is Your Life.