Peter Corris

Thank you, Kate.

No, I don't.

I enjoy Cliff as much as I hope the readers do.

And I've written two more.

Well, they're somewhere between the drawing board and the pipeline.

And no, I don't get tired of him.

I find it great fun to write and stimulating rather than boring.

So if a writer's stimulated by what he's doing, he's got the game licked.

It's hard to say.

The writing itself actually gives me the chance to express myself, to get things off my chest, to have sly digs at people and to praise certain things and to disparage other things.

And so that way, the writing is kind of therapy in that way.

As to the character, he's just so familiar with

and so like me in some ways and not like me in other ways that I find it enjoyable to play between those two kind of qualities.

Oh, that's a big question, isn't it?

Um...

Sydney's changed more.

Australia has changed more.

Hardy still is the basic character that he always was, just with certain adjustments.

But I think the country and the city have changed enormously.

That's right.