The Source: Daniel Andrews lifts radio blackout with new ABC Radio Melbourne Mornings host Raf Epstein

Daniel Andrews has lifted his morning radio blackout, gifting new ABC Radio Melbourne Mornings host Raf Epstein a day one interview following the exit of Virginia Trioli.

Daniel Andrews has ended his Melbourne morning radio ban.

Putting the squeeze on Victoria’s movers, shakers and headline makers.

Morning radio listeners heard a long lost voice on the airwaves on Monday morning. Here’s a clue: the voice spoke of not ruling anything “in or out”.

After dispatching the ABC’s Virginia Trioli to the freezer for 10 months, where she joined 3AW’s Neil Mitchell (who was snap frozen back when the new iPhones was an 8.0), Premier Dan Andrews turned up in the studio to chat with the ABC’s Raf Epstein.

“Good morning, Raf, how are you?” Andrews began, before tackling 20-odd minutes of questions about housing, trust and crime rates and (perhaps ironically) transparency and accountability.

Mitchell welcomed the surprise development — with caveats.

“It’s great to see Andrews has rediscovered morning radio,” he told the Source. “But it will only last until the questions get tough.”

Daniel Andrews (left) and new ABC Radio Melbourne Mornings host Raf Epstein. Picture: ABC

Melbourne Jewish Yes campaigner booed in synagogue

A new voice has emerged from the growing yes-no divide over the referendum on a Voice to Parliament.

That voice? “Boooooo.”

Courtney Winter-Peters, the Melbourne Jewish community’s leading Yes campaigner and chief executive at social justice movement Stand Up, received a razzing from the “Booos Brothers” recently.

However, for Ms Winter-Peters, it wasn’t so much the verbalisation, but more the location.

She was booed at a kiddush (blessing ceremony) in a synagogue on Shabbat (Jewish day of rest).

“My crime? I said an Acknowledgement of Country,” she wrote in the Australian Jewish News.

“I didn’t speak about the Voice. I didn’t mention anything to do with politics. I acknowledged the Boonwurrung People of the Kulin Nation who have cared for the land that my family has been lucky to call home since the late 1940s.

“What is it about acknowledging the history of the country that has given us a place to live and thrive safely makes you so offended? Offended enough to compel you to boo?

“Saying an Acknowledgement gives recognition. So simple yet so powerful.

“In our house, we teach our kids not to boo at a footy match. We teach them that just because you don’t agree or don’t support, doesn’t mean you have to boo.”

Ms Winter-Peters was left shaken by the incident.

Caulfield’s Rabbi Daniel Rabin has since apologised for the behaviour of his shule (house of worship) members.

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