Abraham Gubler is an Australian journalist and defence analyst. He is the Features Editor of the Australian Defence Business Review (ADBR) and formerly Associate Editor of DefenceToday (October 2004 to May 2006). He is also notable for his time at Griffith University (2001-04) where he was elected as student representative to the university’s governing body, Gold Coast Student Guild President and twice editor of the student magazine Getamungstit. In 2003 he was the winner of the Most Outstanding Student Journalist award at the Queensland media awards. His mention on Wikipedia is notable as a long lasting example of Wiki Vandalism where he was portrayed as a humorous political and journalism caricature.

Student Journalism

The following is a copy of an open source biographical piece published in 2004:

Standout Griffith Student Graduates
Queensland’s “most outstanding student journalist” Abraham Gubler is set to graduate after three years at Griffith University in which he fundamentally changed campus student media and representation.
Vice Chancellor Professor Glyn Davis lauded Gubler’s service to the university community.
“In a student body of 32,000 it is hard for one person to make a difference, but Abraham is that person,” he said.
Gubler was elected to the Board of Directors of Griffith’s Gold Coast Student Guild within six weeks of commencement and set out to fundamentally change their many operations.
According to Head of the School of Arts and Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Associate Professor Steven Stockwell, as editor of the Guild’s magazine Getamungstit Gubler “turned it into a student newspaper”.
His work as a student journalist was recognised at the 2003 Queensland Media Awards where he won the State Press Gallery’s $1,500 award for “Most Outstanding Student Journalist”.
While congratulating Gubler on the award Premier Peter Beattie commented that his work was “a great example of journalistic ethics and standards”.
The award was in recognition for his investigative report ‘The True Story of How Griffith Got a Medical School’.
Apart from increasing Getamungstit’s circulation from 1,000 per month to 4,000 Gubler also established the student narrow-cast network Get-A-Radio.
He changed the magazine’s structure to make a student the editor, removed odious political censorship, encouraged student participation and made the content relevant and compelling.
Journalism and Campaigns & Elections Lecturer Lee Cox said the standard of the magazine had students actually fighting to get articles in.
“Abe has actually managed to do things that many, including myself, have tried to do and failed,” he said.
Professor Davis said of Getamungstit “I read every issue, even when it makes me wince”.
“Abraham made Getamungstit a must-read in an era when no one pays much attention to student newspapers,” said Proffessor Davis.
“He did this by adapting the format to the values of the Gold Coast, making it a glossy magazine that mixed hedonism and serious thought.”
Fellow students have also recognised the impact Gubler has had on their learning community.
First year journalist student Amanda Abate said he motivated her to get involved in extra-curricular activity.
“He always lends assistance and I reckon I’ve learnt more by showing up to the Getamungstit meetings than classes.”
Gubler also served as a student representative being elected President of the Student Guild and as student member of Griffith’s governing council.
“His contributions to Council have been a fascinating combination of the provocative and the sensible, always student-focused, often concerned to tell truth to power,” said Professor Davis.
“It takes guts to take on management in any organisation.”
Associate Professor Stockwell, also the National Tertiary Education Union’s local branch president, said Gubler had for the first time vitalised the Student Guild.
“Abraham took it in an independent direction where previously, the Guild’s policy had been acquiescence with the university’s whim.”

Wiki Vandalism

The following is the former content of this entry:

Abraham Gubler is an Australian media personality, former presenter of the current affairs show on the ABC called 'Defence Today'. He gained notoriety for his broadcast of the Iraq war in 2003 and being the first Australian journalist to break the story about Saddam Hussein|Saddam Hussein's capture.

He is the long term partner of Australian politician Pauline Hanson with whom he has recently collaborated on the shared autobiography "Pushing the Envelope". The pair also gained notoriety for a cover version of the Sonny and Cher classic "I Got You Babe", which played an important role in Pauline Hanson's ascendancy to power in the Australian senate, longside Michael Brander in the 1990s after a landslide electoral victory. They live reclusively on a rural property near Ipswich, in Queensland, Australia. Since the axing of his show on the ABC Gubler is set to return to television in the Australian series of Celebrity "The Biggest Loser" scheduled to broadcast in May, 2006, featuring other celebrities such as Australian Idol Winner Casey Donovan.

His television show was recently axed in 2006 after low ratings and an incident where Gubler, believing the cameras had ceased running, swore with profannity and put his hand up the dress of a female stagehand. The tape was broadcast on a rival newstation, showing Gubler saying to the young lady "You knew what you were here for" at her objection to his physical groping. It is not known yet if charges are being laid or the matter is being settled out of court, which remarkably is receiving much less attention than similar allegations surrounding Derryn Hinch. Unlike Hynch, Gubler has refused to comment to media outlets about the incident nor issue an apology. However, when Pauline was asked about the matter of her fiance' on-air sexual deviancy, she used the line that made her a household name responding "I don't like it".

External links

ADBR

DefenceToday