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The Never Never Newsreel was a weekly syndicated satirical radio sketch created by Australian satirist Josh Zepps that ran until June 2008. It was aired on Radio 2UE in Sydney [1] and on syndicated stations across Australia. [2]

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The Newsreel was the successor to Mike Carlton's long-running weekly comedy sketch Friday News Review, which Zepps also performed in. [3] Zepps' other weekly political sketch, Kevin Rudd's Diary, is the successor to John Howard's Diary and Kim Beazley's Diary.

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