Ian James Cover (born 31 July 1956) is an Australian radio presenter, comedian, politician and author.
He rose to prominence as a founding member of radio sporting comedy group the Coodabeen Champions, entered Victorian state politics in 1996, serving one term as a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council, and subsequently returned to radio comedy.
Cover has also been a radio presenter and newspaper columnist in his own right, and has written three books.
He was rumoured as a likely candidate for the Legislative Assembly seat of Bellarine at the 2002 election, but instead recontested and lost his Legislative Council seat in the Liberal Party's landslide loss that year.
[4] A property Cover and his family had owned for thirty years was destroyed in the Dereel bushfires of March 2013.