Lisa Wilkinson

And if you are not across the political landscape and all of the possible rabbit holes, a prime minister is going to want you to go down when you're trying to do this rabbit hole over here.

You've got to do your homework.

You've got to be completely up to date with everything.

So I would often get late calls saying,

I remember one in particular that Carl and I were up in Brisbane and we'd just been doing the upfronts for Channel 9 and we were sitting in Brisbane Airport and it was about half past nine and I got a call from the executive producer saying, you've got Clive Palmer tomorrow morning.

I'd never interviewed Clive Palmer before, but it was that phase of he was doing very questionable stuff about paying out mining employees who hadn't got their super and

Their paychecks weren't coming through in the way that they should have.

And he was also famously walking out on every interview he was doing, even Sarah Ferguson.

And I just thought, okay, I've got to understand the way this guy works.

I've got to see how his mind works, what the tipping points are.

And I literally, there was no internet on the plane at that time.

So I landed in Sydney and I stayed up all night and I watched every interview I could find, got all of the information on his business dealings that needed to be thoroughly investigated.

But you only get six minutes with these guys and that's a generous interview, but we'd never had Clive Palmer on the show before.

And it's one of my favourite interviews.

I need to go and watch this interview.

Well, at the time, he was known for falling asleep in Parliament.

And I pointed that out to him.

He was not happy.

But I'm only going to get one shot at this.

He will never want to be interviewed by me again.