The Pig’s Arms own faceless (and also nameless) numbers man was at the Gough Whitlam Oration with his trusty recorder wide open in his bootleg.

The rustling is the sound of leg hair on leather – which some patrons may find particularly attractive.

Here’s the entire event.

Starting with the University of Western Sydney Chancellor Shergold, Aunty Sandra’s welcome to country, John Faulkner’s Introduction (at 06:25), Gough for a minute (recorded video at 11:29) and Malcolm (at 12:30).

It goes for about 1 hour 25 minutes all up including thank yous and closing remarks by the VC – and will chew about 40MB of your bandwidth.  But it’s well worth it.

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Here’s the Transcript