Analysis: Kyle and Jackie O's 22-year airwave reign has come to an abrupt end after the show was rocked by 'serious misconduct' claims, a move that media experts say could forever change the radio landscape.

The once bullet-proof radio duo came undone after Jackie 'O' Henderson exited the KIIS FM show yesterday following an on-air argument with Kyle Sandilands on February 20.

The pair signed a $200 million contract with parent company ARN Media – a relic of a bygone radio era – and had grand plans for another decade of the top-rating show.

So what will this mean for Australian breakfast radio now?

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For his part, Sandilands now has 14 days to "remedy a serious breach of contract" and was not on the breakfast show this morning when the show began at 6am.

"Ms Jacqueline Henderson has given notice that she 'cannot continue to work with Mr Kyle Sandilands'," ARN Media's statement yesterday read.

Media expert Peter Cox said Henderson's departure and Sandilands' potential axing could actually be a major financial win for the ASX-listed network.

"This could be a great relief to the network, they had a $100 million commitment to (each of) them out into the future," Cox told nine.com.au.

"This (potentially) allows them to break that contract. They could still employ one or other of them in the future if they wanted to, individually or combined up with other people.

"But, I would think for the network, this has got them out of a really big financial hit."

The pair reportedly earned around $10 million a year each, including a revenue-sharing arrangement, after signing a landmark deal in 2023 which would have kept them on the airwaves until at least 2034.

Combined, the pair's contracts were reportedly worth $200 million over a decade.

The Sydney-based show launched in Melbourne in 2024 but was unable to deliver the ratings after achieving a meagre 5.5 per cent audience share in the Victorian capital.

Cox said the Kyle & Jackie O Show's abject failure in the Melbourne market was the first indicator that ARN's golden goose was in trouble.

"They have not got the ratings in Melbourne. That means they haven't got the revenue," he said.

"So ARN Media have not been able to get full value out of them."

Media Stable managing director Nick Hayes believes the show's performance in Melbourne may have been the pressure point that led to this week's fallout.

"The fact that they couldn't make any inroads there with Melbourne and they were warned… they knew, but egos were flying high there and they were hoping that they were going to become number one in Australia's second biggest radio market," Hayes said.

"But it just shows that local always wins.

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"Because it failed so miserably in Melbourne, it was pretty much the litmus test there for the rest of the country and it was never going to fly."

ARN's share price jumped more than 4 per cent as markets opened this morning, rising to 0.36c per share after steadily tracking downwards for months.

Cox said this was the clearest sign that investors have faith in an ARN without its flagship radio show.

"This is a big win, and of course, to be up… when the market is in free fall, that's a big result."

Henderson and Sandliands' absence will bring commercial Australian radio into a fresh era; one that doesn't involve $100 million, 10-year contracts.

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Their crumbling facade is proof the landscape may not have room for controversial personalities anymore, InsideOut PR chief executive Nicole Reaney said.

"I think they started at a time where you could push the boundaries; they have both stormed extreme controversy over the years," Reaney explained.

"But I think times are changing, where people are quick to trigger and cancel personalities.

"I think over the years, we have seen Kyle also shift his demeanour as well."

As for Henderson and Sandliands' careers? The fallout will fade and they will both be OK, Cox said.

Outside of radio, Sandilands has TV commitments as a judge on Australian Idol.

Henderson launched a lifestyle brand with her friend Gemma O'Neill in 2023, which the radio personality announced she was stepping away from earlier this year.

"I think the two of them will be able to handle this. They've got plenty of money," Cox added.

"They will make money in the future, and for the radio network, I think it got rid of a terrifying liability that they've got themselves into."

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When under pressure on inflation, tariffs, immigration and even the Jeffrey Epstein case, the Trump administration has pointed to the success of the financial markets.

But Donald Trump's biggest move of his presidency, the war with Iran, has seen a sharp drop in shares globally.

And there's no end in sight for the market decline.

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"Yesterday was the markets' denial phase. Today is the no relief phase," Bank of New York's Bob Savage said.

"There is significant room for global market corrections to continue, as risk has been built up over the last three years of global growth."

The ASX 200 dropped sharply on opening this morning, the third straight day of substantial losses.

Former Goldman Sachs strategist Robin Brooks said that financial markets are the "ultimate constraint" for Trump.

"It was disorderly conditions in the Treasury market that got him to back down vis-à-vis China back in April 2025," he said.

"We're moving in that direction very fast."

Some stockbrokers are even hoping for another TACO moment from the president.

The unflattering term coined on Wall Street stands for "Trump Always Chickens Out".

Many investors have cashed in on the assumption that the president would reverse his unpopular decisions in the face of wide opposition.

The term first came into use after Trump delayed many of his Liberation Day tariffs.

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"There are a few areas where Donald Trump is sensitive to pushback," the US Studies Centre Director of Research Jared Mondschein told nine.com.au.

"As much as people say he likes to only go in one direction and go maximalist, he often comes to a more negotiated outcome or settlement."

And when it comes to Iran, Trump does not have the support he would have hoped for.

"He's also gotten pushback from Republicans on some matters, when he sees his GOP base is not with him," he said.

"He also has responded in the past to the financial markets not going well."

But predicting the president's next move is a "fool's errand", Mondschein said.

The ASX 200 is down 1.71 per cent and counting an hour after the markets opened.

Meanwhile, the price of oil continues to skyrocket as Iran threatens oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Dow Jones had another bad day, as did the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite.

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More than 200 stranded Australians have left Dubai after the US-Israeli war on Iran erupted across the Middle East and caused widespread airport closures.

Emirates flight EK414 safely made it out of the warzone about 9.30am today (AEDT) and is expected to land in Sydney about 10.30pm. 

Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong said the UAE helped provide a commercial flight.

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She said six crisis teams will be heading to the Middle East to help stranded Australians.

Dubai International Airport reopened for limited services earlier this week, days after it was struck by an Iranian retaliatory strike and the airspace was shut.

The federal government estimates there are about 20,000 Australians in the UAE and another 115,000 more in the broader Middle East region.

Wong told the ABC earlier this morning the situation is a "consular crisis that dwarfs any that Australia has had to deal with".

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Australia has not yet committed to sending repatriation flights to help stranded citizens abroad.

Wong has repeated that repatriation flights are "one of the contingencies we always look at", but insisted that commercial flights would be the fastest way to get the large volume of Australians safely out of the Middle East.

Shadow defence minister James Paterson called on the government to do "everything they can" to help Australians out of the Middle East.

He said the opposition would offer "unqualified bipartisan support" if military assets were needed to help repatriate them.

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Meanwhile, several other nations across the world have begun plans to repatriate their citizens.

The US has sent free charter flights to evacuate citizens from the UAE, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

The Department of State said it is in contact with 3000 citizens and 9000 have already returned home.

The UK has 130,000 citizens in the region and has organised a charter from Oman, Germany has 30,000 citizens and booked a charter from Oman and Saudi Arabia and Italy has already chartered about 500 citizens from the UAE and signalled there will be more to come for the thousands of others.

France has 400,000 citizens in the Middle East and is preparing to evacuate them.

Small number of commercial flights resume

Dubai Airport resumed limited services out of its two international terminals on Tuesday.

Priority is being given to departing flights. 

Passengers are advised not to travel to the airport until they have received a confirmed departure time from their airline.

Emirates, Virgin Atlantic and flydubai are also resuming limited flights.

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Commercial flights have departed Dubai today for several cities, including London, Manchester, Moscow, Prague, Amsterdam, Budapest, New Delhi and Mumbai.

There were 26 flights cancelled. 

Warnings about flight safety

Some flights have been able to safely leave Dubai, but the situation is volatile and airspaces can open and close abruptly.

There have also been sporadic warnings to shelter in place due to incoming attacks. 

Dubai Airport said it is maintaining the "highest standards of operational safety". 

"Dubai Airports continues to closely monitor the situation in coordination with the relevant authorities, and our focus remains on maintaining the highest standards of operational safety, security, and well-being of passengers and staff," the airport said on its website. 

Smarttraveller warned that airports and aircraft are more vulnerable to attacks and retaliatory strikes.

"Consider a commercial option to depart if you can secure one, and it is safe to do so," Smarttraveller said in its latest update.

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"You should verify the status of any border crossing before you travel by air, land or sea. Make sure you have access to food, water and essential medicines.

"Consider that airlines may cease operating at short notice, and you may need to find accommodation. Availability of accommodation may be limited."

Australians are urged not to travel to the region. 

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An armed man has been shot by police after a pursuit along a highway on the Sunshine Coast.

Officers were called to the Sunshine Motorway after a crash near the Sippy Downs exit just after midday, police said.

The car involved in the crash fled the scene, after which police trailed it to Nambour Connection Road in Woombye.

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The driver then got out of his car on the Bruce Highway and approached officers while armed with a gun.

He was subsequently shot by police.

Officers provided first aid to the man, before he was taken to Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a stable condition.

A crime scene has been set up and the Ethical Standards Command will investigate the shooting, with oversight by the Crime and Corruption Commission.

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Spooner was one of 26 people caught in 2025 selling recreational seafood illegally.

A daughter of one of the travellers says the trio have heard nothing from the Government.

The cost of a schooner at the pub is about to rise after two major brewers moved to hike tap beer prices.

Lion, which brews the likes of XXXX Gold, Hahn, James Boags and Little Creatures, confirmed it has made the "difficult decision" to raise the price of some of its draught beer, blaming cost inflation in Australia's embattled hospitality industry.

"Despite a welcome pause in excise rises for tap beer, the brewing and hospitality industries have continued to experience cost inflation over the last couple of years, and market conditions remain difficult," a spokesperson for Lion told nine.com.au.

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The beer giant said it had seen a significant rise in costs including materials, wages, warehousing and distribution.

"Lion is committed to striking the right balance between competitive pricing and recovering some of the costs passed onto us from our suppliers in a stubbornly high inflation environment," the spokesperson added.

Fellow beer giant Asahi – the parent company of iconic Australian favourites Victoria Bitter (VB), Carlton, Pure Blonde, Crown and Great Northern, has also increased its tap beer prices.

A keg of VB now costs $415.10, a price increase of $13.90.

This amounts to about 40c per schooner.

Pub owners say this price hike is going to hit customers at the bar.

Phil Anderson owns and operates The MiTCH in Alexandria, in Sydney's inner-south, and said margins for pubs are already "very, very thin".

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He warned the price of schooner could near the $14 mark as venues desperately try claw back profits, with many owners having "no choice" but to raise the cost at the cash register.

"Any increase to the price has to be passed onto the customer straight away," Anderson said.

In response to the price hikes, the Australian Hotels Association (AHA) has recommended that operators charge $9.50 for a schooner of VB, XXXX Gold and Carlton Draught.

Before the price increases, the AHA recommended $9.10 for the same brands.

But Anderson said this still leaves little room to make any profit.

"People don't understand that it's not just the pub trying to make money," he said.

"It is these multinational groups."

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He'd love to stock more independent Australian brands, but Anderson said a good pub can't avoid having beers like VB on tap.

"People love to buy them," he said of the Asahi and Lion duopoly's popular draughts.

Proprietors like Anderson have welcomed the federal government's beer tax excise, but say it amounts to nothing if prices keep soaring.

The House of Representatives last month approved a bill temporarily freezing excise on draught beer in a move the government pitched as a cost-of-living measure.

It has been a short-lived relief.

"Every six months there is a price increase anyway," Anderson added.

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Police allege the man ignored repeated warnings to stop selling the substance.

Australian dairy farmers are calling for stricter labelling laws so that their plant-based competitors cannot use the word "milk".

The UK Supreme Court last month ruled that Swedish company Oatly could no longer trademark or use the phrase "post milk generation" on its products following a lengthy legal battle by Dairy UK.

Australian Dairy Farmers president Ben Bennett wants the federal government to follow suit with mandatory rules, saying milk should come from an animal and not a marketing department.

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"You hardly really milk an almond tree," he said.

"I think we just need to be a bit more honest about the language we use."

Bennett has been a dairy farmer in south-west Victoria for the past 20 years and knows first-hand just how much effort goes into producing milk.

He said plant-based alternatives are "effectively a juice" with different nutritional value and calcium levels from the real thing.

"We're all competing for the consumer's dollar, and rightly so," he said. 

"The consumer should have the opportunity to have a transparent, informed perspective for the product that they're consuming, and they are distinctly different."

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Australia has voluntary labelling guidelines outlined in an industry code of practice.

The federal government put $1.5 million in the 2024-25 budget towards a review of plant-based and alternative protein labelling and commissioned Food Standards Australia New Zealand to conduct a rapid review, market survey, and a consumer survey.

That research found that Australians can accurately identify plant-based products.

They did not believe plant-based products are nutritionally equivalent to animal counterparts and are not confused about ingredient content. 

The government will, therefore, work with the Alternative Proteins Council to strengthen the code of practice. 

​This will provide clearer guidance by discouraging animal imagery, limiting meat-specific terminology, improving the prominence of plant-based qualifiers, and establishing a complaints mechanism.

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"Australian consumers should be able to clearly identify both traditional and alternative protein sources," Agriculture Minister Julie Collins said in late January.

But Bennett's message to plant-based manufacturers is simple.

"I think it's time that they rode their own boat and stopped endeavouring to emulate us. If they're so confident in the product, try having your own name," he said.

9news.com.au has contacted Oatly and the Alternative Proteins Council for comment.

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South Australia's top cop has claimed two members of the family of missing four-year-old Gus Lamont are "not cooperating" with authorities investigating his disappearance.

SA Police has confirmed to nine.com.au that two of Gus' family members are "only communicating via their legal representatives" after Commissioner Grant Stevens mentioned the changed circumstances on radio today.

"We are still working with Gus' mum and dad and there are other members of the family who are no longer cooperating," he told ABC Radio Adelaide.

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It is not known which family members have allegedly withdrawn cooperation with investigators.

Stevens added that investigating the little boy's disappearance remained a "top priority" for police – confirming officers would be returning to the family station at a later date.

Gus has been missing since September, where he was last seen at his family's station in the state's outback.

SA Police declared Gus' disappearance as a major crime a month ago and said a person with close ties to the household, who is not one of Gus' parents, had been speaking to detectives but allegedly "withdrew cooperation."

Police said that person was considered a suspect, though their idenity hasn't been revealed.

Stevens also said police had "all but ruled out" the possibility that Gus had simply wandered off.

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"There has not been one single piece of evidence that we have located during that searching exercise, the most extensive search I think arguably in the history of South Australia, that has given us any indication that he did wander off," he said.

"We will be going back to the property, I can't say when, I can't say what the reasons will be, that's entirely up to the task force, but the work is ongoing."

He insisted that finding Gus was the main concern of the state's police force, saying he wished to bring closure to Gus' parents, Josh and Jess.

Late last month the pair released a publc statement via SA Police, where they urged anyone with information to come forward. They also released new photos and video of their son.

"Our lives have been shattered, and every moment without him is unbearable," they said.

"We are united in our search for answers about what happened to our little boy, Gus, who means everything to us… we know someone out there may have information.

"If someone knows what happened, we are pleading with that person—or anyone who may have seen or heard anything—to please come forward.

"Even the smallest detail could give us the answers we so desperately need."

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