Phillip Adams Biography
Phillip Adams AO, FAHA, FRSA is a humanist, social critic, broadcaster, public intellectual, and farmer from Australia. Four nights a week, he hosts Late Night Live, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) show on Radio National. He also contributes to The Weekend Australian with a weekly column.
How old is Phillip Adams? – Age
He is 83 years old as of 12 July 2023. He was born in 1939 in Maryborough, Australia.
Phillip Adams Family
Adams was the only child of Reverend Charles Adams, a Congregational Church minister, and was born in Maryborough, Victoria. His life was far from pleasant, and his parents divorced when he was young.
Where did Phillip Adams go to college?
He studied in Eltham High School.
Phillip Adams Wife
Patrice Newell is Adams’ wife. He has four daughters, three from his first marriage to Rosemary Fawcett and one from his second marriage to Newell. He lives on “Elmswood,” a big property near Gundy in New South Wales’ Hunter Region. He and his wife raise organically fed animals and grow garlic and olives.
Phillip Adams Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Phillip Adams Books
Adams has written or edited over 20 books, including The Unspeakable Adams, Adams Versus God, The Penguin Book of Australian Jokes, Retreat from Tolerance, Talkback and A Billion Voices, Adams Ark, and Emperors of the Air, which he co-wrote with Lee Burton.
Phillip Adams Political views
Robert Adams has been referred to as “the emblematic figurehead of the pro-Labor left intelligentsia” by Robert Manne. Adams was a long-time member of the Australian Labor Party and had a close relationship with each Labor leader, from Kevin Rudd to Gough Whitlam. Adams resigned from the Labor Party in 2010 because he was dissatisfied with Julia Gillard’s decision to fire Rudd during the Labor leadership spill of that year. The Green Left Week by week portrayed Adams as “unrepentantly left-wing, despite the fact that he has not totally deserted the dead cadaver of the Snow capped mountain that he had carried around for a really long time”. In 1995, Adams opposed Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act of 1975, arguing that “public debate, not legal censure” was a better response to racial hatred.
Adams referred to Liberal Prime Minister John Howard as “far and away the worst prime minister in living memory” during the Howard administration. Adams tweeted in 2022 that Australian cricketer Donald Bradman was a “right wing nut job” for writing a letter to criticize socialism.
Phillip Adams Tweet
Adams was accused of using a racist and derogatory term in his answer to Kamahl, a Malaysian-born Australian singer whom he called a “honorary white” on Twitter. Adams was alluding to false accusations that Bradman declined to meet with Mandela because of political and racial disagreements. Kamahl refuted this, writing to Anderson to inform him that he had not received any correspondence from Adams. Anderson responded by requesting Kamahl to accept his “sincere apologies” after being informed that an apology had been sent, but he had now asked Adams to send his apologies to him directly. Adams responded by writing Kamahl an email.
Phillip Adams podcast
At times, Adams refers to his listeners as “the listener” or “Gladys,” as if he only has one; he also refers to listeners collectively as “Gladdies.” In recent years, Adams has began starting the show with “Good evening Gladdies and Poddies,” a nod to the show’s burgeoning podcast audience.
Phillip Adams Late Night Live
Adams first hosted a late-night program on Sydney commercial radio station 2UE in the late 1980s and early 1990s before taking over as host of ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live in 1991, interviewing guests on a variety of topics including politics, science, philosophy, history, and culture. Late Night Live is broadcast on ABC Radio National, Radio Australia, and the Internet throughout Australia. The program begins at 22:00 AEST/ADST and is repeated the next day at 16:00 AEST/ADST. The program is a serious examination of global concerns tempered by Adams’ mild and sardonic humour. Bruce Shapiro and Beatrix Campbell are regular contributors.