Eddie Robertson

Let's talk after this about it.

Yeah, yeah, I'll put you in touch with him, mate.

Good, good.

Oh, yeah, mate, take a beer up there.

Yeah, mate, he's got a great place, good set up, and he's good for a yarn.

But anyway, so I roll in there with the ex-wife and Bushy, and, you know, we'd had a few drinks the night before in the hotel that they put us up in, and we roll in there late.

Well, not by our own.

But as we walked in there to get our name signed off,

There's RS and he's in the middle of a deep conversation with Tony Abbott, Gus Gilmore, the sock host at the time, and there was someone else there.

It wasn't Bill Shortman.

It was some other key politician or whatever.

And as we walked in, he looked up and he saw me and he basically just fonked those three people to make a beeline over and he come and he shook my hand and he's like, hey, Eddie, how you going, mate?

You know, because he knew that me and Betty were fucking good mates, you know, and, you know, I was out of the fold.

I'm a civvy now, you know, and I don't really like those kind of like big sort of pomp and ceremony events.

Like I kind of...

I love watching them but I don't like sort of being involved in them.

And so I'm there as a guest of the family and right up the front while, you know, Quentin Bryce is handing his fucking incredible piece of, you know, history over to his parents and it was tough, you know.

Like I'm not afraid to show my emotions, you know, but it was a tough day for me, man, you know.

But RS came up, you know, and he –

He came up and he shook my hand and he goes, you know, mate, if you need to have a chat, mate, just reach out to me because we've got a good mutual friend up in Brisbane, you know, and I don't have RS's number on my phone and, you know, the AFP probably wish I did but, you know, anyway.