Murray Wilton is the General Manager of the Sydney Royal Easter Show, a position that he’s held for the last 13 years. During his tenure, attendance at the Show has risen steadily and this year is no different with 84,000 people passing through the gates on just one day and 170,000 people passing through the gates over the first three days of the Show.
With cost of living pressures affecting many families, Wilton and the management team decided to not raise ticket prices.
“The cost of living is a major problem for many, many families. I’m not really seeing that here at the moment. But look, I think what’s happened is that people are probably coming to the show, they’ve probably got less money in their back pocket but once you get in the gate you can literally walk around for 12 hours and not pay for anything.”
When he’s not steering the ship at the Sydney Royal Easter Show, Murray is presenting the much-loved Two Murrays show on 2GB alongside his co-host Murray Olds.
“I first entered media back in 1986 and started at 2GB as a control room operator and then did my stints in Goulburn and Canberra and came back to Sydney and I juggle between GB and UE for many many years but yeah, Muz and I do the Two Murrays on weekend afternoons when the football comes off.”
When Murray isn’t behind the microphone or on centre stage at the Sydney Royal Easter Show, he’s relaxing in the Southern Highlands of NSW, a region which holds a lot of fond memories from his time living on a farm outside of Goulburn.
