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The Hon Jeffrey Gibb Kennett, AC, is – he admits we might find this surprising – reluctant. “Jeff does not do interviews over lunch,” emails the personal assistant to Victoria’s polarising 43rd premier, instead offering coffee and a chat at his office, housed in a terrace in the inner-east suburb of Cremorne, so much trendier in temperament and attitude than his old state seat of Burwood.

As I wait for Victoria’s leader from 1992 to 1999 to descend from the upper floor, a glance around his meeting room reveals the measure of the man.

The…

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