Graham Mabury

Keynote Speaker 2022

After graduating from UWA, Graham was a secondary school teacher, then moved to the Australian Broadcasting Commission. In the mid-1970’s he began a pioneering work with homeless young people, developing pathways of support to help them rebuild their lives.

In 1981, he took a huge leap of faith into the uncertain world of commercial media. For the next 33 years he was a light in the darkness for countless thousands of Perth radio listeners as host of Radio 6PR’s popular Nightline program.

Nightline used radio to create community – “the Nightline family” as he called it – from which a wide-ranging expression of community service grew.  The Living Stone Foundation was born in 1987, co-ordinating multi-agency Christmas and Blanket appeals, supporting lone fathers, giving crisis care and most notably providing an “off air counselling service” answering the many enquiries from people who phoned Nightline each night.  Lifeline WA grew from this, with Graham as its inaugural Chairman.

Whilst hosting Nightline, Graham was called to the pastoral team at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church where he has served in various roles for forty years, nine as the senior pastor.  He is currently Pastor to the Community.

Graham has served numerous statutory and advisory bodies to governments and continues to serve many organisations in this capacity. His service to the community has been recognised with a number of awards including WA Senior of the Year and the Order of Australia Medal.

Graham has been married to Merle for 51 years and has twin sons who both serve the church in America. The couple have 7 grandchildren.

We look forward to hearing more of Graham’s story at this year’s Governor’s Prayer Breakfast.