Amanda Blair
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Amanda Blair (born 20 October 1968) is a Australian radio broadcaster, a former columnist with the Sunday Mail, and a former member of the Social Inclusion BoardTemplate:List Fact, and has been a board member of the Adelaide Festival since 2004Template:List Fact. She produced an event Comedy For A Cause as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 2004, 2006 and 2008Template:List Fact which raised significant money for homeless charities.
She started her radio career in Melbourne in 1996 when she made an appearance on the Richard Stubbs Breakfast Show on Triple M to promote her book The Essential Pauline HansonTemplate:List Fact. She was promptly signed with Austero, gave writing the flick[clarification needed] and packed her bags to come to Adelaide to co-host the breakfast show with Paul Gale and James Brayshaw in March 1998Template:List Fact. The show secured the no 1 position in the marketTemplate:List Fact by the end of that year and maintained it until the show imploded in July 2003Template:List Fact.
In 2007 after a three-year break from radio she began work at FiveAA hosting the afternoon program.
Blair is also a ruthless competitive cook[neutrality is disputed] and has come second in Novice Jam and Spreads (2) varieties (lemon butter and controversial yet stunning blood orange butter[peacock prose]) at the Royal Adelaide Show. Template:List Fact