Norman Tyrell Banks, MBE (12 October 1905 – 15 September 1985) was an Australian radio announcer, sports broadcaster, and television presenter.

His father, Charles Cecil Banks, died before he was born, and his mother, Alice, worked as a draper to support the family after her husband's death.

[2][3] He found work as a car salesman for S.A. Cheney Motors and travelled to England and the United States as a representative of the company.

On that first night, 10,000 people gathered at midnight in Alexandra Gardens to sing carols with a 30-strong choir, two soloists, and the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Band.

[citation needed] Banks became well known on radio in the 1960s and 1970s for his strongly conservative viewpoint, including a strident defense of apartheid in South Africa, and the monarchy.

[9] These views were often played out on air in debates with the radical journalist Claudia Wright[10] or the broadcaster Ormsby Wilkins, who called him "a sanctimonious old hypocrite".

[1] Furthermore, despite his moral conservatism and appeal to the traditional Anglo middle class, his own personal relationships were subject to press speculation.

[11] He was inducted to the Melbourne Cricket Ground's Rogues Gallery in 1998, with his citation reading— In 1996, Banks was an inaugural inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in the Media category.