John Highfield remembers his radio coverage of The Dismissal

13 November 2025 After four years abroad, John Highfield found himself in the midst of another significant historical journalistic career event when he covered the Dismissal on November...

Pale roses and principles – ABC AM’s 50th anniversary

5 September 2017 John Highfield looks back on 50 years of AM for radioinfo. When Selwyn (Dan) Speight quit Fairfax Newspapers in the late 1960s as a...

Coin flip won Highfield first PM presenter role

8 July 2009 ABC Radio's PM program celebrated 40 years on air this week (see our earlier story). John Highfield was the first presenter on PM,...

ABC Radio’s PM program celebrates 40 years on air

7 July 2009 ABC Radio's PM program celebrates 40 years on air this week. The program's first presenter was John Highfield, and the current presenter is Mark Colvin.

40th anniversary of AM program; Listen to audio of first one

6 September 2007 ABC Radio's AM current affairs program celebrated its 40th anniversary this week. AM hit the airwaves in 1967 hosted by its first presenter Robert Peach.

John Highfield retires from ABC after 35 years

22 August 2004 The ABC has put on a special goodbye function for veteran journalist and presenter, John Highfield, who is retiring after more than 35 years with...