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| Annabel Crabbe and Dick Adams |
In the final episode, Labor backbencher Dick Adams welcomes Annabel into his historically-notorious home in Longford, to talk salmon, mutton birds, cheese, wine, and custom-built cookware. A one-time shearer, Mr Adams explains how he made the journey through various trades, illiterate until well into his twenties, and ultimately became a member of parliament.
While a prodigiously-sized salmon simmers away on the stove, Mr Adams shares the secrets of egg mayonnaise while recounting some of the challenges of his political career, involving his clash with former leader Mark Latham over Tasmanian forestry, in which he defied his own party's election policy.
Born in Tasmania in 1951, Mr Adams descends from convict stock and can trace his ancestors back to Norfolk Island. He grew up on a small dairy farm and after leaving school worked as a shearer, in meat works and on farms. At 17 he lived in Queensland, working as a wool presser and a union delegate.
In the early 1970s Adams was elected as a trade union official for the Meatworkers Union, and in 1979 he was elected to the Tasmanian Parliament. In 1980 he became the Minister for Lands, Minister for National Parks and Minister for Handicapped Services in Doug Lowe’s Labor Government. He left Tasmania state parliament in 1982 when Labor lost the election and he lost his seat. From 1983-93 he was the state organiser for the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union until he ran for the federal seat of Lyons, which he has held ever since.
He is currently the Chair of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Agriculture, Resources, Fisheries and Forestry and also the Parliamentary Representative on the Council of the National Library of Australia.
The episide premieres tonight on ABC2 at 9.30pm and will be repeated at 3.30pm this Sunday (April 1) at 10.30pm on ABC News 24 and again on Monday (April 2) at 10.30pm on ABC2.
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