Scotch College
Private school in Melbourne, AustraliaWikipedia
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Search complete. 14 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Scotch College".
Oct 22, 2026
WippaHOST
the old boys go with that? They would have been disgusted.
WippaHOST
Scotch College was disgusted.
WippaHOST
I'll never be able to attend another black tie dinner.
Kate RitchieHOST
Anyway, 13, 24, 10, if the money changed them.
Sarah MacdonaldHOST
[laughs]
Norman SwanGUEST
... statistics at LSE, uh, to an illiterate shoemaker, to, um, you know, as I said, this 110-year-old minister in Melbourne who still conducts services and sometimes teaches kids at Scotch College.
Norman SwanGUEST
So very different people-
Sarah MacdonaldHOST
Mm
Anthony NorthGUEST
But my father was a deep-thinking man, a very sort of, um, conscientious person, and I think it just was beyond his contemplation of fairness that this could happen.
Michael GreenHOST
He must have been successful, or your parents must have been successful from a business point of view because they sent you to Scotch College, a private school with, um, high pa- high fees, I guess, although maybe not as high as they are today.
Michael GreenHOST
How was your experience at Scotch College? You were a conscientious cadet?
Anthony NorthGUEST
Um, no, I was a very unconscientious cadet.
Anthony NorthGUEST
The, the story of the cadets at, at Scotch is again, a really important, um, thing to understand about my future trajectory because, um, uh, I don't remember much about my schooling.
Anthony NorthGUEST
I've got a bad memory about the past.
Anthony NorthGUEST
I think I'm a future-focused person.
Anthony NorthGUEST
But the thing about the cadets and Scotch was this, that I, I started Scotch in secondary school, so I was 13 or 14, and when I started, I was offered to go into the cadets or to go into scouts, and I had this, uh, desire to wear a uniform, you know, be like the blokes, carry a .303 on the number 69 tram.
Gus MacLeodHOST
I think you can put Harry Wilson in that bracket as well.
Gus MacLeodHOST
Panda didn't play a heap of thirds last year, just the one game, because he was boarding down at Scotch.
Gus MacLeodHOST
So another one that they've brought into the
PandaHOST
mix.
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Gus MacLeodHOST
But the Roosters, their biggest improver, Pander.
Gus MacLeodHOST
And Harry Wilson, this is a guy that the Ovens of Murray didn't know a great deal about, quite simply because he hasn't played much Ovens of Murray football.
Gus MacLeodHOST
Talent League football alongside APS with Scotch.
Gus MacLeodHOST
He burst onto the scene and become a really crucial part of Lavington's defensive structure as their distributor across halfback.
Tony MoclairHOST
Okay.
Tony MoclairHOST
Um, I wonder how many cardiologist children you've put through Scotch College.
Tony MoclairHOST
Um, Bill-
BillAUDIENCE
[laughs]
Chris BonnorGUEST
So the, the cost of d- uh, paying all the fees or paying all the costs of private schools in Australia wouldn't be much higher than what it is now.
Tom ElliottHOST
Well, but except that, but I mean, a- as you'd be aware, like the likes of, say, Scotch College or Melbourne Grammar, they're, they're, they're very expensive here in Melbourne, and I know you're from, I think you're from, you're from New South Wales, aren't you?
Chris BonnorGUEST
Yeah, that's right.
Tom ElliottHOST
Yeah, okay.
Tom ElliottHOST
Well, that's true.
Tom ElliottHOST
The, the, the thing is, in Melbourne, you might be aware that some of the biggest private schools are, are all clustered in o- one or two suburbs, in Kew and in Hawthorn.
Tom ElliottHOST
So, you know, Scotch College, Xavier College, Carey Grammar, MLC, Wright and Trinity, like they're all within a few hundred meters to a K or two of each other.
Tom ElliottHOST
So [chuckles] they'd all have the same catchment area if they were run as state schools.
Cheralyn DarceyHOST
He wanted to recreate in Melbourne the life of an English sporting schoolboy, football in winter, cricket in summer.
Cheralyn DarceyHOST
Shortly after that letter, he co-umpired a football match between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.
Cheralyn DarceyHOST
It wasn't the first game of the code that would eventually emerge, but it was the most significant in the early history of the game.
Cheralyn DarceyHOST
The following year, the oldest known set of rules was written.
Greg AlexanderHOST
Yeah, go for it.
Ed KavaleeGUEST
Would you like me to do that? What is this rugby league you speak of? I myself go to Scotch and I enjoy the beautiful game rugby union.
Ed KavaleeGUEST
Ha ha!
Greg AlexanderHOST
How was that? That was pretty good, Ed.