The Hon. John Ruddick

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2 Worlds Collide Podcast · #96 - The Hon. John Ruddick - Government Trust, Immigration & Who Takes Power Next · 19 Apr 2026 podcast

Just go around to her office just to be nice.

So we go around there.

And Pauline's sitting there just with one staffer and she doesn't realise that she's let off all these, she's just like changed Australia's history, right?

She's just gone back.

And I was looking, and we were only there for like three minutes.

We said, Pauline, yeah, that was a gutsy speech.

Ross doing the talking and he was just saying, yeah, but she didn't sort of know about this culture of having the post maiden speech party.

So she just said, okay.

And she didn't quite, she sort of, she said, oh, well, thanks for coming around, but I don't know why you came around, but, you know, thank you.

You know, it's very nice, Ross.

And she always got along well with Ross.

But while we were talking to her, I just looked, I looked down from her window down outside onto the parliamentary lawn and what can I see?

The full glory of the Joe Hockey, the Joe Hockey party, the celebration party.

And I remember thinking to myself, I remember thinking to myself, I think, yeah, Joe thinks he's going to be the prime minister.

I said, yeah, there's a chance that this little independent here is going to be more significant in Australian history than you are, Joey.

And that's what's happened.

Now, I'm loving what she's doing in terms of blowing up the Liberal Party because it needed to be blown up.

My book, Make the Liberal Party Great Again, was talking about how we can make right-wing Australia an almost unbeatable political force, I'll tell you.

Australia and Canada, which we don't appreciate, are basically constitutional twins.

We've basically got the same constitution.

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