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Brian Wilshire (born 30 March 1944 in Strathfield, Sydney, Australia) is a radio broadcaster for 2GB Sydney. He currently hosts the 'Australia overnight' programme (12:00am – 3.30 am). () The signature of the show is the tune, "Hanky Panky", by Pete Fountain. Brian Wilshire began his radio career in November 1969 at 2NZ in Inverell. (). He has won almost every survey at 2GB for the past 36 years. Wilshire has many interests including snow skiing, car racing (having won his class in 1993 at Bathurst), writing books (his ''The Fine Print'' was Australia's best-selling book in 1992—source: Dymock's, Who Magazine), and playing drums in bands "Stringybark" and "Koala Soup". Wilshire is well-known for expressing sceptical views on mainstream climate change science.〔http://www.2gb.com/article/wilshire-scorches-climate-fears〕 ==Controversy over racial comments== On 16 December 2005, Wilshire was forced to make a public apology, after allegedly saying on air that many Middle Eastern immigrants were inbred as a result of consanguinity and thus hard to educate.〔 〕 "Many of them (referring to the carloads of youths who invaded the Sutherland Shire following the Cronulla riots) have parents who are first cousins whose parents were first cousins. The result of this is inbreeding – the result of which is uneducationable (sic) people...and very low IQ.” At no stage during the discussion was there any mention of the race of the rioters. The media assumed Wilshire was talking about Lebanese. His comments were met with outrage. "It reveals an uneducated comment on his part – they are disgraceful comments," then Premier, Morris Iemma, said. Stephen Stanton, spokesman for the Lebanese human rights organisation Cedarwatch: "One is (radio ) 2GB and the moronic manner that gargling boofhead has been berating and denigrating you. The airwaves are useless if they are used by people such as that. The other is newspapers such as The Australian."〔 〕 Following widespread condemnation, including by Premier Iemma, Wilshire has since apologised for his comments. He has since returned to 2GB Overnights. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brian Wilshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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