Phillip Adams Biography

Phillip Adams born Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams, on 12 July 1939, is an Australian humanist,social commentator, broadcaster, public intellectual and farmer. He is the host of an ABC Radio National program, Late Night Live, four nights a week, and writes a weekly column for The Australian.

Phillip Adams Age

He was born on 12 July 1939. He is 79 years old as of 2018.

Phillip Adams Family

He was born in Maryborough, Victoria, to Congregational Church minister, the Reverend Charles Adams. His childhood was anything but perfect as his parents separated when he was young.

Phillip Adams Wife | First Wife

He was first married to Rosemary Fawccet  but the marriage did not last for long . He is currently married to Patrice Newell.

Phillip Adams Children

He has four daughters;three with his first wife, Rosemary Fawcett, and one with Newell.

Phillip Adams Career

His advertising career began with Foote Cone & Belding, and later, with Brian Monahan and Lyle Dayman. Later on he became a partner in the agency Monahan Dayman Adams. Together they took the company to a successful public listing and in the process Adams became a millionaire .

Adam has developed successful campaigns such as Life, Be in it, Slip, Slop, Slap, Break down the Barriers, Guess whose mum’s got a Whirlpool and Watch the big men fly for a Herbert Adams Pie, working with talent such as Fred Schepisi, Alex Stitt, Peter Best, Robyn Archer and Mimmo Cozzolino. In the 1980s, he left the advertising industry . In 1987, Monahan Dayman Adams purchased the successful Sydney agency MoJo and carried on as MojoMDA. The Agency’s lineage can today be traced to Publicis Mojo, an Australian subsidiary of the French multinational advertising and communications company holding Publicis Groupe.

He previously wrote regular columns for The Age and The Bulletin. Currently he writes a weekly column for The Australian.

He played a key role in the revival of the Australian film industry during the 1970s. In 1970, he was the author of a 1969 report which led to legislation by Prime Minister John Gorton for an Australian Film and Television Development Corporation, later renamed to the Australian Film Commission and the Experimental Film Fund.

Together with Barry Jones, Adams was a motivating force behind the Australian Film Television and Radio School which was established under the Whitlam government.

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Adams played a key role in the development of the South Australian Film Corporation, which was created in 1972 and became a model for similar bodies in other Australian states; and in the establishment of the Australia Council and the Australian Film Development Corporation, later known as the Australian Film Commission, the Film Finance Corporation Australia, and Screen Australia.

Adams, as head of delegation to the Cannes Film Festival, signed Australia’s first co-production agreements with France and the UK.

He was once the Chairman of the Australian Film Institute, the Film and Television Board of the Australia Council, the Australian Film Commission, and Film Australia. He took part in the establishment of the Australian Caption Service, which provides services for hearing-impaired television viewers – and the Travelling Film Festival to take quality films into rural areas.

Adams in the 1960s co-wrote, co-produced and co-directed his first feature film Jack and Jill; A Postscript in 196); the first feature to win the AFI Award, and the first Australian film to win the Grand Prix at an international festival.

Adams co-produced other features including the critically panned but hugely popular film adaptation of Barry Humphries’ The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, directed by Bruce Beresford, which became the most successful Australian film ever made up to that time. His other films include The Naked Bunyip, Don’s Party, The Getting of Wisdom, Lonely Hearts, We of the Never Never, Grendel Grendel Grendel, Fighting Back, Hearts and Minds and Abra Cadabra.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, he initially presented a late night program on Sydney commercial radio station 2UE before succeeding Virginia Bell in 1991 at ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live, a magazine style program that broadcasts analysis of current events to Australian and international politics, science, philosophy and culture. The program is broadcast across Australia on ABC Radio National, as well as on Radio Australia and the Internet. The program is broadcast live from 22:00 AEST/ADST and a repeat is aired the following day at 16:00 AEST/ADST. The program is tempered with Adams’ gentle and ironic humour. Regular contributors include Bruce Shapiro and Beatrix Campbell.

The programs current theme music is a short extract from Elena Kats-Chernin’s Wild Swans Concert Suite, performed by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra with soprano Jane Sheldon, chosen in 2010. Kats-Chernin’s “Russian Rag” was the theme music from 2007 to 2010, which Adams humorously refers to as “The Waltz of the Wombat”. Previous music was Bach’s Concerto for oboe, violin and orchestra in C minor, BWV 1060: III. Allegro.

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Give More 24! helps nonprofits help people like Phil Adams

Updated On: 10 September 2018
Source: tdn.com

Phillip Adams didn’t know he had high blood pressure.

After retiring two years ago from his job as a mechanic, he couldn’t afford regular visits to a doctor.

What he needed was a free health clinic, and he found it in Community Health Partners.

He visited the clinic to remove some cotton from his ear, but a routine check revealed he had high blood pressure. He received medication and was told to come back so the doctors could monitor him — all without an appointment and at minimal cost to him.

“If it hadn’t been for them saying, ‘Something is wrong here, but we can get your health back together.’ … That was a big thing,” Adams said.

One reason Community Health Partners can provide such services is because of its involvement in Give More 24!, a 24-hour annual online fundraiser hosted by the Community Foundation of Southwest Washington. Now in its fifth year, Give More 24! gives participating nonprofits a midnight-to-midnight donation period and a full day of events on Sept. 20.

Community Health Partners is participating for a fourth time. Ken Dale, the clinic’s executive director, said the fundraiser serves two purposes for the medical center: It raises money and brings attention to the program — whether for potential patients or potential supporters.

This year, Community Health Partners’ board will match donations up to $3,500, an increase from the $2,500 match it offered last year.

Most of the money from the fundraiser goes to the clinic’s biggest out-of-pocket expense: buying medications for people who can’t afford a co-pay or traditional medical care. It’s also used for medical supplies such as bandages, gauze and rubber gloves. Doctors and nurses there are volunteers.

If it hadn’t been for the clinic, Adams said, he doesn’t know what he would have done.

“You can just walk in, you can tell them what your problem is and they’ll treat you on the spot and you don’t have to worry about the medical cost,” Adams said.

The clinic sees all patients in need. It treats immediate needs and, if further medical care is required, they see to it at the clinic or get the patient enrolled in another affordable clinic.

The atmosphere at Community Health Partners is also inclusive, Adams said.

“All the people that volunteer, they do it of their own free will and they’re all exceptionally good people. They like to do what they do. There’s an honest, genuine feeling there.”

Adams also said part of that feeling comes from knowing the clinic is community-backed. When the clinic can run on funds from the community, like those generated during Give More 24!, it’s like having neighbors who support healthy decisions.

“I can’t say enough about them,” Adams said. “They have helped me out and they help a lot of other people out. If it wasn’t for them, I never would have known I had to have my fillings done. I wouldn’t have gone to another dentist because I can’t really afford it.”

Dale said the volunteer doctors have a similar effect.

“(Patients) are really treated with a lot of respect,” Dale said. “That’s the difference between a doctor under the clock — they will see them until they feel it’s all done. They’re not in any rush to turn over.”

Give More 24! also helps support other kinds of nonprofits, including the Community House on Broadway homeless shelter.

The Community House has participated in Give More 24! each year. Like the shelter’s day-to-day work, the fundraiser embodies the essence of charity: “It just has a good feeling,” said Frank Morrison, the shelter’s executive director.

The fundraiser helps draw the attention of the community to each charity’s hard work and gives the nonprofits a chance to get ahead on their operational funds. Sometimes, that is paying an electric bill; sometimes, that is helping out a staff member.

“The relationship as a whole with the Community Foundation of Southwest Washington has become better, really because they know the needs we have to keep the population safe and healthy,” Morrison said.

Most of the funds the Community House earns from Give More 24! are put toward families — 90 percent of whom are single-mother households. The Community House offers solace, looking to help keep children from falling victim to a destructive cycle. Sometimes that can be keeping kids safe while they play outside, sometimes it can be covering the childcare costs for mothers who are looking for work.

“That seems to be a gaping wound in the community that we are filling,” Morrison said.

Right now, the shelter is focusing on childrens’ safety, after a young boy was involved in an accident while playing near the road last year. Giving the kids a safe place to play can be difficult because of the shelter’s location on the street corner of Broadway and 11th Avenue.

That’s where Give More 24! comes in.

“After the fundraiser, it does help us to have a more safe and healthy environment, it gets attention of donors,” Morrison said. “A lot of times, people are so busy living life that they forget. … There are so many walks of life that we have in that building.”

Morrison said the shelter took in more people this summer than in any summer since his start there in 2012. In July, 65 people moved out, but more than 70 moved in. In all, it housed 115 residents, 45 of whom were children.

Give More 24! could help the Community House this year more than ever.

“It creates public awareness,” Morrison said. “There’s a natural increase, it gets things started toward giving season. People stop giving in the summer because they’re busy relaxing, vacationing.”

The Kelso Public Schools Foundation is also in its fourth year of Give More 24!.

The foundation started as a group of advocates for Kelso Public Schools students and staff. Last year, the nonprofit gave out 74 scholarships, totaling $110,000, to Kelso high schoolers.

Families and alumni typically donate through Give More 24! and are able to send money to a specific department or scholarship. The rest goes to the foundation’s general fund, which takes care of day-to-day expenses and staffing.

“(Give More 24!) gets our name out there with a positive light that tells people who we are and what we can do,” said Jana Clarke, executive director of the foundation. “Kelso reaches far more than just our area … for people that have gone to Kelso, that bond brings people back. This is another way for us to have a connection.”