We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings,

We will read all the stories about how tough he was and all the rest of it, but I think he was a tremendously compassionate man as well.

We have archeology on television, and I quite like it; it’s a sort of detective thing, but it’s really true, you know it’s there… But it’s kind of slow on telly, it has this problem of, “We’ve been here three weeks on live television, and we’ve taken off about a millimeter of top soil so far…” There’s men with brushes and beards… maybe they’ve just got beards, I’m not sure… “We found this and carbon-dated it to last Tuesday, so we’re very excited…”

We just need a slab. We'll take care of the rest.

Sponsorship, that's the guts of it. And politics.

It's not a sightseeing tour, I can tell you that. Ian Thorpe says it's the best place in the world to train.