But I will say this, the ... intense interest that Prime Minister Rudd showed in the issues and the fact he got on to them so early is a great credit to him actually. The story has been told that as early as the 29th of February, 2008, which is, what, 6-7 months before Lehman’s collapsed – he asked me straight out on a VIP plane flight to Gladstone... : “what’s the worst thing that could happen?”. And my brain was not in that space and it should have been and it took me a while to understand he was talking about the possibility of a Global Financial Crisis hitting Australia and how that would effect [sic] Australia. And I think that’s to his very great credit that he was so far ahead of where well so far ahead of where the world was, and a long way ahead of where we were in the Treasury, even though we’d been thinking about these issues in the abstract.
