The one I was thinking of was done by Danny Webb when he did the news at channel 7 if my memory hasn't totally failed. Something about a spaghetti tree growing in Carlton or Brunswick, which back then had a pretty solid ethnic community.
It's on YouTube but I can't get the link to work.
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OK, so I was out by about 3yrs. 
Missed the Danny Webb one. Maybe before I moved to Melbourne (1974)?
I worked for 3XY, so Ch7’s news team was The Enemy.
We were always trying to get the drop on other newsrooms, as 3XY was a rock music station, and no-one took our news team seriously. I did manage to be the only journalist to get a sound grab from Gough Whitlam at his Melbourne CBD rally for the post-Dismissal election.
I was cheeky enough to side-step his flying wedge of plainclothes police protection & walk beside him for a few yards (with a live mike) before his police detail realised what happened.
I think most of their attention was concentrated on a group of noisy demonstrators hurling insults & waving anti-Labor placards.
Fraser’s protection team was a lot tougher… maybe because he was the target of more vociferous demonstrators…
Missed the Danny Webb one. Maybe before I moved to Melbourne (1974)?
I worked for 3XY, so Ch7’s news team was The Enemy.
We were always trying to get the drop on other newsrooms, as 3XY was a rock music station, and no-one took our news team seriously. I did manage to be the only journalist to get a sound grab from Gough Whitlam at his Melbourne CBD rally for the post-Dismissal election.
I was cheeky enough to side-step his flying wedge of plainclothes police protection & walk beside him for a few yards (with a live mike) before his police detail realised what happened.
I think most of their attention was concentrated on a group of noisy demonstrators hurling insults & waving anti-Labor placards.Fraser’s protection team was a lot tougher… maybe because he was the target of more vociferous demonstrators…
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Ray, well before you got there I think. Maybe mid 60's. I was just a kid and thought it was true 'til the old girl reminded me it was April Fools day. 
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Sounds like Danny Webb might have ‘drawn inspiration’ from the BBC stunt of 1957, maybe thinking people would have forgotten the original…
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I'm sure that was the case. More likely just outright stole the story.
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That’s why the quotes…
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