Malcolm Turnbull
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 28 Jun
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So I had a, you know, I had a good, albeit somewhat distant relationship with her, you know, as a result.
But no, he was, he was an extraordinary guy.
And so my relationship with him was very close, but almost like a big brother, little brother relationship, as you'd expect, you know, two guys.
living together.
Had advantages though.
We didn't have a lot of money in those days and I learnt, so I became quite good domestically for, you know, there's not many men of my generation, you know, can cook or iron or wash or do all those domestic things because they had mothers doing it for them.
So I could do all those things.
what characteristics do you think you were developing at that time that turned you then into malcolm turnbull eventually the politician and the prime minister oh well i suppose you know very ambitious very hard working determined to do well prove myself to my parents you know that that sort of thing yeah common tray and successful people i suppose
Well, Bob, Kevin wasn't a Rhodes Scholar, but Kevin easily could have been.
Tony Abbott, maybe?
Tony Abbott's a Rhodes Scholar, absolutely, yeah.
No, no, she's not from the same tradition.
No, look, I don't think the... I don't know.
I mean, there are... I would think there are more, you know, academically gifted people probably in the House of Commons than there are in the House of Representatives in Australia.
I'm not sure, but certainly...
You know, I mean, one of the things that makes our political system different, and this is where we've got more in common with the US, is Australia is a very big country geographically.
And so everyone who's a member of the House of Representatives or the Senate, apart from the handful that represent Canberra, have to come from somewhere else.
And so you don't get that sort of intimacy that you get in the UK where almost all of your politicians most of the time are living in and around London.
That's a different atmosphere.
But look, I think the Rhodes Scholars, I mean, some of them have done well, some of them haven't.
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