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Thank you. John, can I ask what work has been done up to this stage by your people on this question? You see, what I am thinking is there maybe a detailed study already undertaken on the Los Angeles public transport system and how it worked for them at the ’84 Games. That sort of thing would give us a lot of information. Is that available at all?
Bryan?
No.
It hasn’t been done at all?
Bryan?
No.
Is there a reason for that?
Bryan?
They don’t have a public transport system in Los Angeles.
You don’t like us very much, do you?
That’s a very old-fashioned way of thinking.
[Bryan is being interviewed by Liz Jackson]:
He’s got a very soft side, John. You don’t see it very often but it’s there. I remember we were once in Milan and we were sitting out on this fifteenth-century balcony. We were drinking a local liqueur called ‘Mist of Heaven’ and all of a sudden John just started to weep. I don’t think he was unhappy. I mean, we’d drunk about three bottles of the stuff and the weather was very beautiful and we were just sitting out there looking over the harbour.
[John is being interviewed by Liz Jackson]:
Well, I’ve always responded pretty well to a challenge. I can remember when I was a kid once playing cricket with my cousins on the lawn at the back of my grandmother’s place and somebody said, ‘I bet you can’t put a ball on the roof of that big tool shed at the bottom of the garden’, and I can still remember thinking, "You reckon I can’t do that, don’t you?"
[Off-camera] And could you do it?
No. It was too far away.
[Bryan is being interviewed by Liz Jackson]:
Yes, he had some disappointments, but John could have been a world-class runner. No doubt about that. He wasn’t. But he could have been.
[Voice-over] Further revelations followed a few months later, and in November of that year, fifteen ONAN committee members were cashiered when they were found to have received an estimated $4 million worth of jewellery from a man who gave his name as Mr Tabernacle Choir.
[John is being interviewed by Liz Jackson]:
I felt at this stage Allan Ronaldson still deserved a chance to clear his name. There was still some doubt. Don’t forget that Allan had worked very, very hard for a very, very long time for the movement. I thought that there was still a chance, in my mind, that all of this could turn out to have been a mistake.
[Off-camera] Did you ever see him with a yacht?
No, categorically, I never once saw Allan with a yacht. I did see him with a light aircraft once, at a meeting.
[Off-camera] And where did he get that from?
He told me he’d won that in a card game.
Allan Ronaldson got a very fair hearing. I think if you ask, even Allan Ronaldson will say he got a very fair hearing over this matter.
[Cut to Allan Ronaldson, interviewed in an airport lounge]:
[Laughing] No, he didn’t actually say that, did he?
[John is being interviewed by Liz Jackson]:
[Off-camera] How do you feel when you get personal criticism? Does it hurt?
Personal criticism? I don’t pay much attention to personal criticism, to be honest. Who said something?
[Off-camera] Well, it has been said that you’re arrogant, for example, hasn’t it?
Well what complete barking moron said that?
[Bryan is being interviewed by Liz Jackson]:
Arrogant? John? No. Arrogant? No, not exactly.
[Gina is being interviewed by Liz Jackson]:
John? Arrogant? No, [Thinking about it] no... [Less convincingly] no...
[John is being interviewed by Liz Jackson]:
Yes, I have regrets, I suppose. I’d like, for example, to be able to get out of the office a little bit more and perhaps spend some time with some of the charity organisations that I’m involved with.
[Off-camera] And which ones are they?
Oh, Bicycles for the Deaf, African Dog Hospital, something at Thredbo. American Express. Countless others.
[John is being interviewed by Liz Jackson]:
[Off-camera] It’s been said that ONAN is undemocratic, hasn’t it? That it is a closed, secretive, elite group.
Yes, but only by riffraff.
Tell them Daddy’s in Europe. You haven’t seen Daddy for a bit. You think he’s in Switzerland.
Will I say you’re with Auntie Fahey and Aunty Linda?
No, no, no, no. Don’t say I’m with Aunty anybody. Don’t say I’m with Aunty anybody. You haven’t seen me for a bit. You know, I’ll be back in six weeks.
Hey Dad, there’s a guy out there with a camera.
Well, go out there and tell him you’re a policeman and explain to him that he’s in breach of regulations and if he’s not off the property in one minute you’re going to call the police.
If I’m a policeman, haven’t we already called the police?
Well tell them you’re going to call more police. [Shouting] Bigger ones!
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