He was loud and to some extent a ‘‘shock jock’’ that loved a stunt and polarised listeners but he was true to himself.

While Kaye is best remembered as a former radio announcer in Tasmania on 7LA, 7EX and 7HT, he was for a number of years an adviser and trainer to the Liberal Howard government.

Peter John William Kluver Kaye was born on November 23, 1951, in Brisbane.

He was adopted by Jack and Edna Kluver and spent his formative years attending East Brisbane primary and high schools.

While still in high school he got a job as a public servant working for Queensland Treasury but gave it up after two months because he was bored.

After a short stint as a car salesman, he decided to go to radio school and landed his first broadcast job with 4MB Maryborough.

A commendation from the Queensland government for his coverage of the 1974 floods, saw him land a job at 4BH Brisbane.

Later that same year he took a position with 7LA Launceston and moved with his first wife, Lyn.

Over the next few years he worked at 7HT Hobart, then 2CA Canberra and 5DN Adelaide, before a return to Launceston in the 1980s and stint on air with 7EX and TNT9, where he read the news and weather.

In 1982 he married Sally and they had two sons, Robert and David.

While he used ‘K’ as his radio surname because he was told Kluver would never work on radio, he only legally changed his name to Kaye in the 1980s.

After further stints with 7LA and then 7EX, Adelaide’s 5KA and Woollongong’s i98FM, after 20 years as a broadcaster he retired.

The family returned to Tasmania and he took on the role of Liberal Party regional organiser, working on the 1996 federal election campaigns for Warwick Smith in Bass and Russell Anderson in Lyons.

Warwick Smith won Bass and Kaye became his media adviser.

In 1997 the family moved to Brisbane to be closer to his mother and Kaye became Senator Warwick Parer’s ministerial adviser.

He also worked for Mal Brough and John Moore and as a media monitor and trainer to a number of federal politicians.

After the 2001 federal election, Kaye left the role and the family eventually returned to Tasmania in 2007.

Kaye sat on the West Tamar Council for three years from 2011, however, he had a number of tilts running for local government and the legislative council in the 1980s and 1990s.

In more recent years, he developed a website and sold horse racing systems and methodologies and psychologies on gambling, as well as monitored his stock market and business interests in the UK.

Kaye died from a heart attack at home. He was 64.

He is survived by his wife, Sally and family, including his father- and mother-in-law Max and Gwenda King.