Malcolm Turnbull
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659 appearances
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3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 28 Jun
Malcolm Turnbull’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Each question is designed to put you in a social category, social context.
The difference is you can never change where you went to school, but as to where you live, you could have bought a big house last week.
Maybe if I was a Melburnian, I would have found it more understandable.
But for me, the interest in your antecedents and where you came from, as opposed to what you're doing right now and what you're going to do tomorrow, I found that curious.
It didn't worry me, but I found it curious.
But I've always had great affection for the UK and felt...
Yeah, not really.
You know, I, no, I wouldn't say, I mean, the spy catcher case fell into my lap, Alistair.
I mean, Peter Wright had written this book
The British government had got an injunction to restrain it in Australia, which is where he lived.
He'd had a big law firm advising the publishers that told him he couldn't win.
Lots of QCs had said the same.
And through a couple of connections, he ended up with me and I'd just set up a law firm.
You know, I'd been working for Kerry Packer for a few years, defending him legally.
And then I had this law firm and he wandered in and I agreed to do the case for $20,000, I recall.
So, cause I thought it was gonna be really exciting and I thought we'd win.
And that was an unfashionable view at the time, and we did.
So it was really just a stroke of luck.
But to my astonishment, the Brits didn't settle, and they fought it all the way.
They fought it all the way to a trial.
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