Terry Lane

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Terry Lane is a radio broadcaster and newspaper columnist based in Melbourne, Australia.

He was born in South Australia and educated at Gawler High School. After studying for the ministry at the Churches of Christ College of the Bible in Melbourne, Lane was a minister for six years before working in the Methodist Department of Christian Education and the ABC's religious department.

He began a radio talk-back program for the ABC in Melbourne in 1977, which management discontinued after 11 months on account of Lane's radicalism. A capable and empathetic interviewer, though often expounding controversial views^{[citation needed]}, he was recalled to Melbourne ABC station 3LO in 1982 and was broadcast to Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart and Newcastle from 1984 until he announced his retirement in 1993. After taking a year off he returned to the ABC's Radio National to present a weekly program, The National Interest.

He published a collection of his interviews with famous Australians about their childhood experiences in As the Twig is Bent 1979 and is also the author of More than Meets the Ear 1987; Hobbyhorses 1990 and God:the interview (1993 - second edition 2004). In 1993 he also published his first novel, Hectic, which was followed by Tit for Tat 1994 and Sparrows Fall 1995. The First Century, (a chronogical reference to Australia's Federal elections) co-authored with Doug Aiton was published in June 2000.

He continues to write a weekly opinionative columns for The Sunday Age. Lane's credibility has been questioned after a column published on 30 July, 2006 in The Sunday Age(link no longer available) wherein Lane fell for the Jesse Macbeth hoax. This hoax was well know at the time of Lane's column. In a further article Lane suggest that while Macbeth's claims were fake those claims bespeak truth. In 2007 Lane claimed guides at the Grand Canyon in the US were prohibited from giving the Grand Canyon's geological age because this would displease creationists who supported George Bush. This claim by Lane was widely ridiculed on the Weblog published by Australian journalist Tim Blair and elsewhere.

Lane is secretary of the anti-censorship organisation Free Speech Victoria. He also is the winner of the Wilkie Medal, awarded by the Anti-Football League for doing the least for football in the best and fairest manner.

Since 2003 Lane has reviewed digital photography hardware and software for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. His reviews are published online at dpexpert.com.au [1]