Yanis Varoufakis
speaker
1,142 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 May
Yanis Varoufakis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then they wrote back to me saying, don't be stupid.
We have the summer here.
We'll give you three times the salary.
Come for six months.
If you don't like it, you go back to Cambridge.
And so I said, okay, right, fine.
It was summer.
It was 1988 when, you know, they had the bicentennial celebrations.
And I thought, okay, I'll escape British winter for six months.
I went there, and it was actually quite lovely because it was very backward.
And I am a proud carrier of an Australian passport.
And I have an Australian daughter, by the way, right?
The one who's angry with you for writing a book to her.
Indeed.
Without getting permission.
Without the permission, yeah.
Look, when I arrived, this was the butt end, the almost conclusion of the Hawke era.
Bob Hawke's government with Paul Keating being the treasurer at the time.
And even though they were too right-wing for me, it was a breath of fresh air to be... They were bang on for me, Yanis.
Well, where we can agree, I mean, we can have this discussion, but I can tell you from my heart that...
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