Graham Kennedy’s crown put on sale by Adam Boland for Japanese tsunami fund

Tim Burrowes

March 15, 2011 3:23

Boland with Kennedy's crown. Courtesy of Good Weekend/ Fairfax Media. Pic: Tim Bauer

Former Sunrise executive producer Adam Boland is to auction off one of the major treasures in Australian TV memorabilia – Graham Kennedy’s crown – to raise funds for victims of the Japanese tsunami.

Boland bought the crown at auction four years ago for $17,250.

He said: “I never thought I’d part with it – but I never thought I’d see images like this in a country I love so much.”

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.