I recall being interviewed on radio when I was announcing a million dollar palliative care funding increase enabling the setting up of Gordonvale Hospital and the radio journalist asked "And so just how long have dying people been persecuted until this announcement?" and my response was "What? Go fuck yourself, you retard. This is a really good thing, a real achievement, and, as a faceless bureaucrat, I did it! What the fuck have you ever done?" Never got to air...but the place went ahead in leaps and bounds. From what I hear, it's still doing damn good work.

Never much of a media doyen, myself.