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I remember, you know, we had a show for show on. So the touring group, one of my captains, Brad Kilpatrick, colonel now, but he used to be an actor in the TV series Brains prior to joining the military, joined as an officer. He's best friends with Kylie so he actually got hold of her parents via his parents. She wasn't coming out to East Timor and through the parents she said, "I'll come because he's there".
So she came over. We got to meet her, we got heaps of photos with the squadron guys, because of the lineage between her and Brad Kilpatrick and, yeah, that was great, you know, she's singing Santa Baby on a trailer with a guy with a bass and a drum, and that was just around Christmas time.
So that was really good. Dr. Neeson was there from the Angels. He sang as well. I think the East Timorese, in translation "Are you ever going to see your face again?" You know what comes out after those words? We understood it and we loved it. The East Timorese didn't understand, lost in translation. Another time that I remember, the Prime Minister came to visit, so John Howard, we had to get him up on an armoured vehicle and he had hurt his hip or something just prior to coming over.
And I still remember this, we had to build boxes up behind the armoured vehicle to bring him up. So in front of the media and the whole town, we gathered all the locals around, who could barely speak English. We got him out. They had a microphone very similar to this on the armoured vehicle.
I'm standing next to him, my driver's standing next to him. And he said to me, he said, "Oh, so when? When should I start talking?" And I said, "Well, you're the Prime Minister, Sir, you can talk whenever you want to talk" but, yeah, it was great meeting him as well.
