Palmer started as a copy boy on The Sun News-Pictorial in 1954,[1] covering a wide variety of general work before winning the Herald & Weekly Times overseas scholarship and moving on to sport.
Palmer appeared with Jack Thompson in the football movie The Club, playing the role of a reporter.
His catch-cry, "Keep on punchin'", and relays back to commentators Peter Landy and Sandy Roberts made him even more well known.
A member of the MCG Media Hall of Fame,[2] he retired from the Sunday Herald Sun as associate editor in 2008 but was retained by The Herald and Weekly Times to continue writing his "Punchlines" column.
This Australian rules football biography of a person born in the 1930s is a stub.