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Kitchen Cabinet: Nov 11

Guest: Mathias Cormann -but will there be any reference to the date, which lives in infamy in Australian politics?

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2014-11-10_1456This week on Kitchen Cabinet Annabel heads to Perth for a lunch date with Belgian-born Finance Minister Mathias Cormann.

But will there be any reference to the date, which lives in infamy in Australian politics? Probably didn’t know when the episode would air at the time it was being assembled.

And I hope there are some Belgian chocolates…..?

The Belgian-born senator reverts to type and cooks mussels and frites as he explains the circuitous route by which he came to live in Australia in his twenties.

Mathias’ confident use of a deep fat fryer implies that home-made chips are a regular offering in his home; just another of his lesser-known proficiencies which also include a pilot’s licence and a truly surprising teenage job.

Mathias talks about his experience with poverty in childhood and the politically transformative expedition he made to Berlin as the wall came down.

Mathias Cormann hails from a small town in east Belgium, but now calls Perth home.

He initially struggled to find work in his adopted home, and was briefly the gardener at a Perth girl’s school before Liberal senator Chris Ellison gave him a job.

In 2007, he was preselected to fill the casual vacancy left by the retirement of West Australian Senator Ian Campbell. He was re-elected in his own right in 2010.

Tuesday, November 11 at 8pm on ABC.

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  1. It’s fake and put on for the cameras.
    Example when Bob Hawke was on a few weeks ago, I was expecting him to answer the door nude when Annabel came knocking . Then take her out back to the pool and start nude sunbathing. In the end it was all pretty tame , I’m blaming Blanche

  2. I liked the show when it first started but it kinda reminds me of a propaganda opportunity for politicians to get people on side. I watched the ep with Bill Shorten and his wife and it all seemed a little rehearsed and like he was conscious of portraying a certain image. And all the soft questions from Annabel Crabb seems so dissonant to me, because she usually asks such great, hard hitting questions. I dunno, maybe I’m just in shock at seeing politicians not being jerks.

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