The Court of Public Opinion with Jeremy Cordeaux AM
Daily opinions from Commercial Radio Hall of Fame inductee and Walkley award winning journalist Jeremy Cordeaux. Jeremy Cordeaux has worked successfully in all facets of the media: radio, television and print as well as marketing, promotions, public relations and media training. He has gone from Office Boy to Presenter, Programme Manager, General Manager, Managing Director and Owner of three highly successful radio stations. He started his career at Radio 2GB at the age of 16, he moved to 2GF Grafton and one year later was recruited by Channel 10 Sydney. At Channel 10 Jeremy Cordeaux learned the business of television: ‘general on-air duties’, ‘hostings’, and ‘news reading’. Grundy’s chose him to host the very successful, national teenage show “Blind Date”. He wrote, packaged and hosted his own programmes “The Better Half” and “Ten on Travel and People” (10 on TAP). In 1973 Cordeaux was asked to take over the John Pearce Morning Show on Radio 2GB. In 1974 he was promoted to the all important Breakfast programme. Cordeaux moved to Adelaide in 1976 ahead of 2GB’s disastrous conversion to Rock ‘n Roll. The following thirty years saw Jeremy Cordeaux’s Morning Show, “The Court of Public Opinion”, on Radio 5DN – always at or near the top of the ratings. Over the years, amongst other achievements, Cordeaux has won: a Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism three Gold Medals from the International Radio Festival of New York for Best Talk Show Host in the World a bronze medal for the Best Community Programme in the World twice a finalist as the Best Radio Personality in the World While running the very successful Morning Show, Cordeaux acquired a ten percent interest in 5DN and six months later was promoted to Managing Director. In the last thirty years Jeremy has worked for all the major television networks in Adelaide: presenting “Cordeaux’s Adelaide” for Channel 9, “State Affair” and the “Nightly News” for Channel 7 and editorials for “Ten’s News Hour”. He wrote a popular column for the Murdoch afternoon newspaper “The News” for several years. In 1990 Jeremy Cordeaux sold his interest in 5DN and bought Radio Stations 5AD and 5SE from Hoyts Media. Four years later he set up the first radio “combo” in Australia owning and running the highly successful number one FM music station 5AD and the number one AM talk station 5DN: All the while continuing to present his Morning Talk Show from 9.00am till 1.00pm. In 1996 Cordeaux sold his company to the Australian Radio Network. He remained on-air for the next ten years. Jeremy Cordeaux was the founding Chairman of the Variety Club of SA, is currently an Ambassador and Life Member for Variety’s Tent 75; a Life Member of the Royal Institution for Deaf and Blind Children in NSW; Patron of the Motor Neurone Disease Association of SA; on divisional council Red Cross for ten years; on the board of SA Great for ten years and on the board of the Smith Family for five years. He is a member of the Australian Club, the Union and Pioneer’s Club, and a Life Member of the Order of Australia Association. In 2003 he was Knighted by The Order of St John for his services to the community, and in 2006 acknowledged in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List with an Order of Australia, AM. Jeremy and his wife, Caroline Peacock, have homes in Adelaide, Sydney and Hamilton Island. They have one son and Jeremy has three adult children from a previous marriage. His latest venture was producing and presenting a news, talk, current affairs, chat show which he calls “The Court of Public Opinion” – an “eccentric” programme recorded in Cordeaux’s extensive garage. His hobbies include: the media, art, old cars, reading and gardening.
Episodes
Jeremy Cordeaux delivers another passionate edition of The Court of Public Opinion, taking aim at government spending, taxation, gambling advertising, public sector growth and the treatment of Australia's iconic Brumbies. Jeremy outlines what he believes are the major reforms needed to get Australia back on track, including lower taxes, reduced government bureaucracy and a stronger focus on produc...
Jeremy Cordeaux marks the anniversary of his arrival in Adelaide and reflects on a lifetime in broadcasting before launching into a fiery critique of the Albanese Government, union influence, public sector growth and economic management. Jeremy examines the collapse in auction clearance rates, Pauline Hanson’s rising political fortunes, the CFMEU controversy, and Labor’s decision to abo...
Education author Dr Kevin Donnelly AM joins Jeremy Cordeaux — with Dr John Bruni and Professor Ian Plimer at the table — to discuss his new book Wake Up to Woke and the cultural shift reshaping politics here and abroad. Donnelly traces the "long march through the institutions" from Gramsci to today's classrooms, drawing on Roger Scruton's idea of "oikophobia" to explain why voters are fed up with a globalist elite &mdas...
Former South Australian MP and veteran journalist Frank Pangallo joins Jeremy Cordeaux — with Dr John Bruni at the table and a guest turn from political strategist Toby Ralph — for a frank, funny and pointed look at where politics has gone wrong. Pangallo, who rang the alarm on illegal tobacco in Parliament years ago, explains how a $7 billion-a-year black market built a "tobacco mafia" bigger than drugs while bureaucra...
Geologist, author and mining-company director Professor Ian Plimer joins Jeremy Cordeaux — with Dr John Bruni also at the table — for a wide-ranging panel on the shifting ground of Australian politics. Plimer argues Pauline Hanson has become a serious political force as high-profile figures like Gina Rinehart publicly back One Nation, while a divided Liberal Party, hamstrung by its "wets," keeps sliding. He makes the ca...
Strategic analyst Dr John Bruni of Sage International joins Jeremy Cordeaux to dismantle the fourteen-point Iran "ceasefire" — which he argues isn't a peace deal at all, just a way for Trump to walk out of a kitchen that got too hot. Bruni, who once gamed Gulf scenarios inside the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi's think tank, explains why closing the Strait of Hormuz was always Iran's real nuclear option, why Netanyahu's ten-kilome...
Jeremy Cordeaux takes a fired-up call from Mike O'Reilly, a former Advertiser journalist and community-engagement veteran, who unloads on Anthony Albanese's tax backflip — rebranded as a "carve-out" — and what he calls a new world record for political spin. The conversation widens into a blistering account of union power in Australia: the faceless men of the old ALP, the CFMEU, the painters and dockers who posted black ...
In this Garage Edition of The Court of Public Opinion, Jeremy Cordeaux tackles rising fuel prices, global uncertainty and what he sees as growing public frustration with government decisions. From the Strait of Hormuz and fuel excise relief to the SpaceX IPO frenzy, climate change scepticism, Australia's tax burden and the expanding public service, Jeremy questions...
Jeremy Cordeaux returns from the garage to tackle what he sees as the biggest political and economic issues facing Australia. He discusses the Federal Government's proposed tax changes, argues that productivity and investment are under threat, examines Pauline Hanson's rising popularity, questions the sustainability of the NDIS, criticises Labor's economic management, and warns about the long-term...
Jeremy Cordeaux returns to the Garage Edition of The Court of Public Opinion with a wide-ranging commentary on politics, healthcare, taxation, government spending and the growing pressures facing everyday Australians. Jeremy questions Anthony Albanese's collapsing popularity, attacks South Australia's hospital ramping crisis, examines whether government subsidie...
Jeremy Cordeaux returns to the garage with a fiery critique of the Albanese Government, examining plunging Newspoll numbers, controversial tax changes, housing affordability, and what he sees as serious failures in economic management. Jeremy argues that proposed tax reforms and attacks on investment are already hurting Australia's housing market, warning of rising rents and lower auction clearance...
Jeremy Cordeaux delivers a fiery Garage Edition focused on the Albanese Government's latest budget, questioning claims that it is "aspirational" and arguing it punishes ambition, investment and hard work. Jeremy takes aim at negative gearing changes, unrealised capital gains proposals, Australia's growing tax burden and what he sees as Labor's drift away from working Australians. He also discusses ...
Jeremy Cordeaux returns to the garage with a blistering critique of the Albanese Government, questioning everything from energy policy and housing affordability to AUKUS submarines and the latest federal budget measures. Jeremy examines new polling that suggests Pauline Hanson and One Nation have become a major political force, discusses fears of falling property values and negative equity, and as...
Jeremy Cordeaux returns to the garage for another fiery edition of The Court of Public Opinion, tackling government waste, woke media absurdities, tax avoidance, infrastructure failures and the growing divide between common sense and political ideology. Jeremy questions Labor’s decision to effectively abandon the Inland Rail project, slams what he sees as ...
Jeremy Cordeaux returns to the garage with a fiery post-budget edition of The Court of Public Opinion, taking aim at Labor’s controversial economic policies, public service blowouts, and what he calls “the lies that preceded the budget.” Jeremy discusses rising unemployment, the backlash against changes to trusts and negative gearing, and the g...
Jeremy Cordeaux fires up the garage for a sharp post-Budget edition of The Court of Public Opinion. He opens light — Made in Australia Week and a nostalgic run through the greatest advertising slogans ever made — before turning the heat on Canberra. If Coles can be dragged to court and fined $100 million for misleading the public, why does the Labor Government get a free pass for misleading voters before the last electi...
Jeremy Cordeaux returns to the garage for a blistering post-Budget reckoning. With 83 percent of Australians telling pollsters Labor has lied, Jeremy argues this wasn’t a Budget — it was a political suicide note. He traces the eerie parallels between Anthony Albanese and Gough Whitlam, walks through the carnage Whitlam left behind in the 1970s, and warns that scrapping negative gearing — a tax mechanism introduced...
Jeremy Cordeaux delivers a fiery reaction to the Federal Budget in this special GARAGE edition of The Court of Public Opinion, taking aim at Labor’s handling of negative gearing, capital gains tax, immigration, energy policy and housing affordability. Jeremy questions the government’s integrity over broken promises, warns younger Australians are being...
Jeremy Cordeaux returns for another fiery edition of The Court of Public Opinion – GARAGE Edition, tackling Australia’s looming Federal Budget, the rise of One Nation, the collapse of traditional political parties, and growing concerns around government spending and immigration. Jeremy questions Labor’s promises on negative gearing and taxation, ...
Jeremy Cordeaux returns for another lively GARAGE edition of The Court of Public Opinion, tackling everything from Australia’s fuel crisis and electric vehicle push to concerns about energy policy, immigration, media bias, childcare standards, charities, and the future of LIV Golf in South Australia. Jeremy also reflects on war, politics, opinion polls in Am...
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