Ronald Arthur Casey OAM (5 July 1929 – 2 October 2018) was an Australian television presenter, sports journalist and talk-back radio host based in Sydney, New South Wales.
Although Casey was a successful sports media figure, he later stirred controversy as an often "politically incorrect" talk-back radio host, famous for his quick temper.
The station's owner, the Labor Council of New South Wales, passed a motion at its conference that Casey must desist from "making statements inciting racial hatred, sexual assault and sexual harassment" while being employed by the station and thus associated with the Labor Council.
[9] The Victorian RSL chief Bruce Ruxton, who was on the set at the time of the brawl, said the next day: "As for Ron Casey, he deserved a good punch in the nose."
[11] In May 2000, Casey was suspended from radio station 2GB after saying that Aboriginal Australians were "disadvantaged because they won’t get off their black arses and do some work".
And I've always made a practice wherever I work, of selecting the ugliest girls and as they walk by, give them a backhand pelvic flick.
[2] He had numerous health problems in his eighties, including a quadruple heart bypass, several strokes and bladder cancer.