Aaron Kearney pays tribute to his colleague and great friend Jill Emberson ahead of a memorial service at Newcastle City Hall

By Aaron Kearney
Updated January 23 2020 - 7:08am, first published 5:30am
INSPIRING: Jill Emberson was "blunt and tactful", "elegant and rough" but "always authentic", says her long-time ABC colleague and friend Aaron Kearney. "It falls to all of us to continue her fight now she is no longer leading us," he said.
INSPIRING: Jill Emberson was "blunt and tactful", "elegant and rough" but "always authentic", says her long-time ABC colleague and friend Aaron Kearney. "It falls to all of us to continue her fight now she is no longer leading us," he said.

"This is just not how my story should go," she says with heartbreaking resignation and trademark defiance.

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