🎙️ BONUS | Nick Doesn't Know How Governors Work

**Kip Wightman** (0:05)
Welcome everyone to our little bonus podcast. Luttsy's all dressed up.

**David Lutteral** (0:11)
Yeah, I'm about to head to this, I don't know where I'm going. I'm going to the Consular General's house.

**Susie O'Neill** (0:17)
That would be nice, I reckon. So he's the... You would think so, wouldn't you? a strays representative over in the US.

**David Lutteral** (0:22)
I don't even know who it is, he or she.

**Susie O'Neill** (0:24)
I don't know who it is. Actually, I think we met them. It might have been a lady.
At the G'dayUSA function. Oh yeah, I think you're right, actually. I think it was a lady.

**Kip Wightman** (0:35)
So do we have an equivalent here? Like, do we have a US one here?

**Susie O'Neill** (0:38)
We would do.

**Kip Wightman** (0:39)
I don't know.

**Susie O'Neill** (0:39)
But maybe in Sydney.

**Kip Wightman** (0:40)
Yeah. I think we do.
This is a bit different, but the Governor House here, or whatever, that one there, that massive property sort of in Barden... The Governor. Is it the Governor House?

**David Lutteral** (0:54)
We have a Governor.

**Kip Wightman** (0:55)
Government House. What is that? What do they do?

**Susie O'Neill** (0:58)
They're the representative of the...

**Kip Wightman** (1:00)
Of the Crown?

**Susie O'Neill** (1:01)
Queen?

**David Lutteral** (1:02)
King.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:02)
King now. They've just got a new one in.

**David Lutteral** (1:05)
In Queensland.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:05)
Yeah. And he's really interesting. What's his name? He's the first gay governor.
How do they get in?

**Kip Wightman** (1:12)
Like, how do you become the governor?

**Susie O'Neill** (1:13)
Well, the government chooses you. So the last one was Jeanette Young.
I think it's a five-year term.

**David Lutteral** (1:21)
She was the former health expert through COVID, wasn't she? Yeah.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:26)
Oh, right.

**David Lutteral** (1:27)
So it was a state government position.

**Kip Wightman** (1:30)
Yeah.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:31)
So Chris Afuli chose this one.

**Kip Wightman** (1:35)
It looks like a great house to live in, just quietly. Massive block there.

**Susie O'Neill** (1:38)
Prime real estate. I was reading about the new guy. The new guy as well also was the school captain of MacKillop.
I read all the story about him. He's a Supreme Court judge. What's his name?
Justice Thomas Bradley to replace Dr. Jeanette Young. It's a five-year term. He looks really interesting. Yeah. It's interesting the first, my dad alerted me to that. He said he's the first gay governor. There you go. What else about it?

**Kip Wightman** (2:07)
Probably your dad texting you that. Susan, have you seen? There's a gay governor.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:12)
He said, isn't it good? Blah, blah.
That's all I've got about him. Yeah. Okay.

**Kip Wightman** (2:16)
There you go. You could be the governor. I could see the making of you in years to come.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:19)
Well, theoretically, you're meant to sign off on law stuff. I could see you coming out there. You know what I mean?

**Kip Wightman** (2:30)
Yeah. So you actually have to do some stuff.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:32)
I think you have to do a lot of functions.

**Kip Wightman** (2:33)
Yeah. There'd be a lot of meeting places.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:34)
A lot of protocol. The function I went there years ago with, who was it then, Justice, no, Paul De Jersey.
So when you have dinner, it's really protocol. Like it's something to your left, to the right, like a sip of this, a do of that.

**Kip Wightman** (2:51)
You know what I mean?

**Susie O'Neill** (2:52)
I can't remember.

**Kip Wightman** (2:52)
But my grandma used to be friends with Leanne Ford. Oh, yes.

**Susie O'Neill** (2:56)
Remember, she was it.

**Kip Wightman** (2:58)
She's very close with Leanne still. So we went there when I was kid.

**Susie O'Neill** (3:02)
Oh, fun.

**David Lutteral** (3:02)
Yeah.

**Kip Wightman** (3:03)
I'm just thinking like, why does this woman have this house?

**Susie O'Neill** (3:05)
Leanne Ford.

**David Lutteral** (3:07)
Nice garden as well, isn't it?

**Susie O'Neill** (3:08)
I think they have an open garden day. Yeah. And maybe Christmas lights. Yep.

**Kip Wightman** (3:12)
Because it backs down sort of near Barden area into that park and whatnot.

**Susie O'Neill** (3:15)
But let's do a list of them. I think that that Bryce, Quentin Bryce has been governor of Queensland and also governor-general of Australia. I think she's done both.

**David Lutteral** (3:26)
Yeah, I reckon you're right.

**Kip Wightman** (3:27)
So will this place you'll be going to today, Luttsy, be nicer than that?

**David Lutteral** (3:31)
I don't know. I don't know whether I can take photos, but I'll try and take some photos and see what it's like. My Uber is three minutes away, by the way, so.