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The Morning Shift

television program on weekdeys on Sky News Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ28753340 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Morning Shift is an Australian morning talk, news and commentary program broadcast on weekdays on Sky News Australia. The program launched on 30 January 2017 as part of a new programming lineup. It is hosted by Tom Connell and co-hosted by a rotating panel of Sky News presenters, reporters and contributors.

The show replaced News Now with Helen Dalley which had aired in the majority of the timeslot in 2016.

It currently runs from 9:30am to noon. In September 2017, Laura Jayes took over the hosting role, after returning from maternity leave and moving from her prior role as host of The Latest with Laura Jayes. It was cancelled in October 2017.

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“The Morning Shift” enters the record as television program on weekdeys on Sky News Australia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Morning, Shift and television can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Morning, Shift and television.
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“The Morning Shift” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Morning, Shift and television provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28753340. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Morning Shift” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.