Rob Astbury (1948 – 9 November 2017)[1] was an Australian radio and television sports journalist and real estate agent.
In 2005, Astbury revealed he was HIV positive,[4] although medical tests showed he was a rare long-term nonprogressor (or "elite controller"), whose body can suppress the virus for a long period without antiretroviral drugs.
[6] After retiring from television, Astbury worked as a real estate agent at Broadbeach on the Gold Coast, Queensland, between 1995 and 2000.
During the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami while Astbury was holidaying in Phuket, he reported on the devastation for the political website Crikey.
[7] Returning to the Gold Coast in 2010, Astbury worked with the Ray White Real Estate agency in Broadbeach.