My goodness, it must have been deflating.

It was horrendous because we'd encouraged, we had, we invented crowdsourcing because we had, We did things like having, we dyed golden gloves and sold a million pairs of golden gloves for a dollar so that people would help clean up.

And the whole symbol was cleaning up Melbourne.

And, you know, so we did all kinds of fabulous things.

And we did great plans.

The council did great plans for Dockland, which would have been six story, you know, a village sort of low rise, like a Paris, you know, the heart of Paris.

All sorts of fantastic plans and things were done.

Do you have a favourite story from along the way of a delegate's interaction here?

Um, my goodness, it must have been deflating.

It was, it was horrendous because we'd encouraged, uh...

Look, we had, uh, uh, we invented crow- crowdsour- crowdsourcing because we had...

We did things like, um, having, uh, we dyed golden gloves and sold a million pairs of golden gloves for, for a dollar so that people would help clean up, and the whole symbol was cleaning up Melbourne.

And, you know, so we did all [laughs] kinds of fabulous things, and we did great plans.

The council did great plans for Docklands, which would've been six story, you know, a village, sort of low rise like, like a Paris, uh, you know, the heart of Paris.

All sorts of fantastic plans and things were done, and everyone was behind it, and everyone was backing us.

How big an adventure was it representing the city around the world in that, in that 18 months courting votes?