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Gideon Haigh

Gideon Haigh

Australian journalist

Sep 9, 2026

7:48
Mm.
7:48
"That'd be right.
7:49
That's exactly what they're gonna do.
7:51
They're gonna carry on regardless.
7:52
Carry on regardless of public sentiment," because I'm not sure that Australian sports fans are all that, uh, fond of, of private investment.
8:01
Uh, they're going to, uh, ignore the wishes of at least two state associations who constitute 55% of Australia's population.
8:12
Um, [tsk] they seem to have, uh, assumed that, um, that the WACA is in the tent with them.

15 MINS LATER

23:47
... for example.
1:28
What was your reaction to this development?
1:31
Well, initially just confusion because there was no actual announcement.
1:36
What happened was the news initially leaked out via staff after they were told at a town hall and bits of it were reported here and bits of it were reported there.
1:48
And I still don't think we've actually got a blueprint for what it looks like.
1:52
Nick Cummins, the CEO of Cricket Victoria, has been briefing everyone individually.
1:57
So you really have to read everything that's been written in order to wrap your mind around what's going on.
2:03
And even then, you know, everything is, as you say, subject to conditions and various checks.

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Todd GreenbergSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
7:53
That's not an easy balance to find.
3:52
Yes.
3:54
So, yes, I was able to find the various files pertaining to William Wallace.
4:00
A man like this who spends...
4:02
So much time under the state's surveillance inevitably leaves a solid trail of records.
4:08
And his file out at New South Wales State Archives is quite comprehensive.
4:14
This is the first spill of his incarceration.
4:18
And it includes a letter that he sent to the Inspector General of the Insane in New South Wales.

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18:02
He's a

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