 On 12 October 2015 he underwent heart ablation surgery and the inserting of a Pacemaker/Defibrillator at Pindara Hospital at Benowa Waters in Qld.On 28 January 2016 he had his gallbladder removed and an umbilical hernia repaired at the John Flynn Hospital at Tugun.While retired from day to day broadcasting, his international date files, "It Happened Today", were used extensively on 2UE's and 2GB's Alan Jones breakfast show from 1992, and were also featured in Webster's CD Encyclopaedia in 1997.