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As much as I love listening to the "Two Murrays", they are not the first to broadcast the ABC news bulletin read by Rod McNeil being interrupted by Spike Milligan.
I have heard this segment several years ago, and even the low-fidelity version of the snippet has been uploaded more than 10 years ago (as at 05-03-2022).
Here is at least 10 year old segment with telephone quality sound, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eUSdL8bqJc&ab_channel=mrenk .
This is a clearer segment introduced by Rod McNeil in 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4rawSsNlLc .
In addition, it has been reported that the town of Woy Woy has been labelled by Spike Milligan as "the world's only above-ground cemetery".
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-s-aboveground-cemetery-finally-forgives-spike-and-puts-on-its-own-goon-show-95004.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/oceania/australia/articles/woy-woy-australia-spike-milligan/
....to list a few references.
Perhaps that's why the Central Coast is known as "God's waiting room".
https://www.theweeklysource.com.au/wheres-gods-waiting-room-nsw-central-coast/
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/central-coast/central-coast-has-highest-percentage-of-population-aged-over-80-in-australia/news-story/4ff34003ca515f5aedaa760dd835b321
Thank you,
Anthony of laugh out loud Belfield, in the lands of the Wangal and Darug Peoples of the Eora Nation