12 September, 2015

Lunching with Flannery and lamenting a decade of lost leadership


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Tim Flannery.
here's a hilarious, if slightly unsettling, scene in Two Men In China where Tim Flannery and John Doyle (aka Roy Slaven) find themselves in a penis restaurant in Beijing which serves up the mighty members of various animals and fish – sheep, shark, dolphin, dog and the like. It's an altogether horrific buffet of the unthinkable. With dipping sauce. Flannery says he got through it by choosing to view the experience as a first-year biology experiment. And, no, he didn't get stuck in. Not even a tasting plate.

The internationally renowned climate scientist, paleontologist and author of around 30 books and I are in the comparatively less challenging culinary environment of Dr Jekyll's cafe in Grey Street St Kilda, a convivial and evidently popular eatery with a courtyard out the back.

Read Graham Reilly’s story in Spectrum in today’s Age - “Tim Flannery laments 10 lost years of political leadership.”

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