He's still in his cocky era, always cutting corners and playing outside the rules, and he's forever talking himself up, making sure everyone knows that he's got mates in high places, like WA Premier Brian Burke.

He would often make a, a grand play of ringing important people such as Burke from the change room and letting other people hear what he was saying and what he was doing, and that was really a bit of the measure of the man.

Indeed, I agonized over the decision, but the confidence in the political process has been so severely undermined, I now believe there is no other way to proceed.

It must have taken a lot of courage for her to call that royal commission because you're calling a royal commission into your own party, and I know that many, many people in that party still detest what she did [laughs] and will take that feeling to the grave.