“I just thought that, at my age, I went: ‘If you’re going to make a decision to pivot in your career, it’s probably now’.”
O’Keefe said his new company, Emerald House, would be non-partisan and work with “business interests that need to navigate both the political and media maelstrom”.
“I had to retreat from the intensity of it all”: Sarah Macdonald.Credit: ABC
As well as Hadley making an emotional exit from 2GB, axed ABC Radio Sydney presenter Sarah Macdonald bowed out, saying she appreciated the “utterly overwhelming … love and support” of listeners since learning she was not part of the station’s plans for next year.
“I am OK, but it’s been a big couple of weeks,” the Mornings host told fill-in presenter Emma Crowe.
On her absence from the airwaves since shortly after learning of her sacking last month, Macdonald said she needed to be silent for the first time since she did a retreat in India 23 years ago.
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“I had to retreat from the intensity of it all,” she said. “I needed to find my peace and my strength.”
Macdonald said that after a break she would “pop up in peoples’ lives” in new ways.
“I might set up a new Facebook [account] called, I don’t know, ‘Sarah Macdonald in peace, love and strength’,” she said. “I might do some writing. I’m going to do a Substack.”
