Jeff Kennett

You would know the woman about the Hawthorne racism saga.

And I read it and I spoke to Jeff Kennett.

I said, is this right? He said, this is just not right.

It went, it dragged Alistair Clarkson, the coach then of Hawthorne.

Someone's getting a spray.

Jeff Kennett copying a spray.

Oh, yeah.

In a headlock.

I traveled down from Sydney, um, to watch them in absolutely incredible match.

Uh, wore my Jeff Kennett jacket, uh, for my Bangkok tailors up the top of the Shane Warne Stand.

Question without notice, have you gentlemen ever witnessed three free kicks to one team in the last minute that decided the match?

Uh, no, but they were all there, Mitchell.

I actually took to the stage.

I was the speaker before Jeff Kennett.

So I did a bit of a change over there and got a photo with him.

And yeah, that is up on my Instagram.

So yeah, great guy.

Great to meet him as well.

Okay, so we can see the photo of you and Jeff Kennett on Instagram, Olympia Gutowski.

And there's a few other things that I want to talk to you about with your Instagram account as well that we'll cover throughout the morning.

We were literally pushed all the way to the back.

There was Jeff Kennett and all these smart bastards up the front.

Yes.

And then there was Sticks, Jimmy, and myself up the back.

Mine goes 30 years back.

I used to work for the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, and I did my MBA around 93 when Jeff Kennett's privatization was going on.

So because I had access to the whole state data as SECV, so I modeled based on assumption that how the Victorian wholesale market, if not controlled properly, the generators could gain, right? That's in some scenario.

That was my thesis, part of that MBA we had to do.

So I sort of racked my brain.

I mean, I've spoken about this with Jeff Kennett on the program when he paid down Victoria's debt back in the 1990s.

But back then they had things to sell, you know, the, the SEC, for example.

So i-if you were back at the treasury or maybe you're the treasurer of Victoria, what would you do to reduce Victoria's debt?

Uh, if you don't like them, you get them out.

Uh, people didn't like Jeff Kennett towards the end.

What happened? Voted out.

And we all went, "Really? What happened?" Well, that's what democracy sometimes shows up.

It's the Emmy Awards, some big names, some wonderful, uh, people and shows that you and I, uh, love.

Uh, and we'll talk again on Thursday morning, all part of Australia Overnight.

Oh, yeah, Joe writes, "So Tony, you were saying that you were gonna work for, uh, Jeff Kennett in those days proves that you would just sell your soul for money." Thank you, Joe.

Well, you're right.