Sarah Konoski

Well, how long in advance had you and Georgina worked out that speech?

This big national stage is a long way from your childhood in Launceston.

Your dad was a keen photographer when you were growing up, Richard.

What kind of images are in the Scalia family albums?

Explain to me the role that the Bridge North Parrots have played in your family.

Are you allowed to play on that team if you're not a member of the Scalia family?

Maybe you can make a senior team.

You never know.

How competitive were you as a kid?

Tell me about, Richard, what happened in your family with your mum's health when you were just four or so.

What do you remember about living on that farm?

It sounds quite isolated to be there as a little kid with, I guess, an older couple.

When you moved back home with your mum and your dad and your brother, you were reunited.

Did your mum have a different fragility to her?

Did life at home feel different after she'd had that period of ill health?

Is that where the thought, the idea to become a doctor first rose up in you, do you think?

So you went off to Hobart to study for your medical degree and you took on various odd jobs to pay your way through that study.

What are some of the things you did to pay the rent as a medical student?

So you mightn't have been working, but you weren't spending all of your time over your textbooks is what I'm hearing, Richard.

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