We've heard their policies, and seen their election pitches, but what we really want to know about the candidates for the seat of Goulburn is what makes them tick.
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What interests them?
Who are they when they aren't electioneering?
Who is the person behind the candidate, so to speak.
To help us find out about more about them, we asked each of the candidates to tell us five fun facts about themselves, along with their top five books, top five movies, top five TV shows and top five singers or songs.
Here's what Greens candidate Iain Fyfe had to say.
- I’ve still got the large banner “Bunnings hammers Forests” as a collector’s item from when I did protests with the Wilderness Society. It was a time when Bunnings was a company behind of a lot of the clear felling that was going on (decades ago) in Western Australian forests. No longer the case I understand.
- My wife and I went to Vienna to get married – no guests! The ideal stress free wedding, from our point of view anyway.
- I had my first kid at 18 and my last (my one and only daughter) at 51. No rest for the wicked they say.
- When I’ve travelled in Asia, and once when visiting Kakadu NP, locals have told me I resembled Crocodile Dundee.
Shane Howard: ‘Solid Rock’, ‘Let the Franklin Flow’ with the Goanna band, still produces albums that are uniquely Australian. Best album – “River” 1989. Spent a lot of time with Aboriginal communities and indigenous music and will be at the Canberra Folk Festival I believe. His songs have been recorded by the likes of Troy Cassar Daley and several by Mary Black, internationally renowned Irish folk singer. Latest album “Deeper South”. www.Shanehowrd.com.au
Howard Jones: ‘Prisoner’ - Brilliant innovative 80s man.
Danielle de Niese: Soprano singer spent early childhood in Australia, now in America. I’m a bit partial to baroque music and she’s done some lovely work with classics from Handel, Bach, Pergolesi etc
Cold Chisel: ‘You Got Nothin’ I Want’ - what more can you say. The definitive Australian band tapping into very heart and soul of this country. An amazing and diverse bunch of musicians. Don Walker just a brilliant song writer and musician.
Cold Play: A bit more contemporary and undeniably appealing
Edith Piaf: ‘Je Ne Regrette Rien’ - French cultural icon, what a voice, what an exponent of passion.
A Family in Paris: About a family from South Australia that spent five or six years living in Paris. Everything from the trials of setting up an apartment through to the very different approach of French education as experienced by the two young girls of the family. Full of very funny anecdotes, a bit of a poke at the French at times, but an undying and passionate admiration of the city itself.
Life in the Tall Eucalypt Forests: Written by another of my ‘heroes’ Dr David Lindenmayer from the ANU. An environment close to my heart, the book talks about the beauty and the qualities of the forests, and of course the ever present threats to their existence from man-made pressures.
The Turning - Tim Winton: An entertaining, thought provoking and at times dark set of linked stories set in Western Australia.
Raising Boys - Steve Biddulph: Steve, an Australian writer and family psychologist, talks about an extremely important subject (bringing up boys) in an easy to read and personally engaging way. Everyone should have a read of this one.
Not much of a movie buff, so I’ll avoid embarrassing myself any more here. Oh ok then:
Star Wars
Amelie
The English Patient
Grand Budapest Hotel
The Killing Fields.
Blockbusters are usually a bit of a let-down for me.
Foyles War: great British Drama. Michael Kitchen is superb, and I like the way political influences during and after WW2 are explored and laid bare.
Dr Who: Good family fun that used to give me nightmares when I was a kid. The current doctor Peter Capaldi is about my age, so I can relate to his way of thinking – is that a good thing?? The show usually has a good message and my kids love it. They were lucky enough to go to the Dr Who museum shop in London last year to see daleks in the ‘flesh’ and plenty of memorabilia.
Rake: NSW politics exposed! Richard Roxburgh in his element.
The Nanny: Witty and sharp and still makes me laugh out loud watching the DVDs. American humour usually doesn’t do much for me, but Fran Drescher had something unique.
Anything with Dennis Waterman: When he played the part of the Minder decades ago, Terry McCann was my hero: straightforward, a little naïve, cockney, but ready to sort out anyone he reckoned was “ou’ of order”. He’s pretty much the same in the show “New Tricks”, just not quite as handy with the fists, and a bit doddery now.
