The one-time biggest name in Australian talkback radio, John Laws, has died aged 90.

A member of the Australian Media Hall of Fame, he attracted two million listeners to his morning radio program at the height of his popularity during a career spanning more than seven decades.

“[Today] marks a very difficult day for our family, with the news that our beloved father/grandfather/uncle John Laws has died peacefully at home,” his family said in a statement on Sunday.

Laws, who spent two weeks in hospital in October, died peacefully at his home in the inner-Sydney suburb of Woolloomooloo earlier in the day, a year after he hung up his microphone.

“While fame and prominence had become a mainstay of his life, for us he was always the person who meant so much, away from the microphone, the cam

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