Interviews

Saint Mother Teresa.  This was made for radio and is probably the best interview I ever conducted. We sat in a small room at the back of a mission in Bourke, Australia after she insisted her Nun’s made me a sandwich as I looked very hungry and I was having walked a long way from the old western town in New South Wales to the mission where she was visiting. For reason’s unknown, I threw away the scripted questions I had and ad-libbed the entire interview.  The question she warmed too the most was when I asked her…  ‘Why are you so could and why can I never be as good as you as a human being’?  She replied that her gift was to go to Calcutta and do the work that I felt conceptualising. She explained, ‘This is my gift”!  She then pointed at the microphone I held and said… “Your gift is this instrument which from the words you speak and the questions you ask can bring so much goodness into the world, by always ensuring that you are telling the truth!”   She added, ‘You have no business with the work that I do!’

Li Chu Wen, Chinese Representative to Hong Kong pre-handover exclusive providing new details of China’s plans post 1997. Nominated for Australian Walkley Award for Journalism. Interview taped in Hong Kong.

Dr. Haing S. Ngor, who played Dith Pran, star of “The Killing Fields”


Sammy Davis Jnr, American legendary entertainer


Peter Allen – Australian born entertainer, ‘Go to Rio’.


Mercedes McCambridge – Academy Winning US actress


Bob Hawke – Prime Minister of Australia


Kevin Rudd – Opposition leader of Australian Government

John Howard – Prime Minister of Australia


Julia Gillard – Deputy Prime Minister of Australia

Malcolm Turnbull – Treasurer of Australia (interviewed 23 times on CNBC’s Squawk Australia by Jeffrey

Lee Hsien Loong – Prime Minister of Singapore


Nguyen Minh Triet – President of Vietnam


Tungku Abdul Rahman, founding Prime Minister if of Malaysia
following independence from British rule.

Tom Albanese, CEO Rio Tinto

Sol Trajillo – Maverick CEO of Telstra multiple times for CNBC as he challenged Australian Government over telecommunications regulations

Gang of house burglars prior-to-and-after a house break-in who following robbery provided advice on keeping people’s homes safe from them! Controversial project with legal complexities and policing authorities unimpressed. Jeffrey did not know the address of the house nor accompany the group.

Anthony Albanese, Australian Trade Minister

Child prostitution undercover investigation, Sydney including interviews of victims and how child-exploitation syndicates operated at that time in Sydney.

Werner Welling, Chairman, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Berlin


‘Commander’ Ali – lead of Muslim rebel group confesses on camera to killing 30 people aboard boats hijacked in the Sulu Sea “I kill them if they scream…” for “Pirates & Policing of The High Seas” filmed on remote island in Mindanao, Phillipines. Warned by Australian Embassy of 5

Lord Alastair McAlpine – Treasurer of British  Conservative Party under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, renowned Conservationist and Philanthropist.

Rod McKuen, American legendary singer and lyricist, ‘Seasons in the Sun’, ‘Jean’
 He is the world’s best selling poet specialising in setting spoken word lyric over music.   He is especially famous for the Warner Brother’s series, ‘The Sea’.

Danny Chan (Asian superstar singer – a rare English interview).  Danny new Jeffrey during the time he anchored news for HK-TVB and during a visit to Sydney and his last international tour, the interview was filmed in a Sydney hotel when the singer and Jeffrey were both ill with an upper-respiratory infection. 

Mercedes McCambridge – Academy Winning US actress ‘ Giant’

Peter Cook, legendary English Comedian

Jeff Imelt, President and Chairman, General Electric. The world’s most powerful businessman and head of the largest global conglomerate at that time. Recorded in 2007 during an address to GE’s Australian employees in Sydney and Melbourne, the two hour address and discussion was completely add-lib after Imelt had changed his mind on the original approach. GE owned NBC and consequently CNBC at that time and at one point Imelt ran dry on stage in front of 1500 and looked at Jeffrey and said, ‘Come back up here Jeffrey…  I need you to ask me a question?”  The Chairman signed off on a corporate Citation for his guidance of what was a stressful occassion which ended one hour before Imelt’s private jet took him onto China.  “He was fabulous and the two hours flew buy. He had so much to talk about related to a company that made everything from television programmes to light bulbs to jet engins and wind turbines…  For me every second was a learning curve.  It was after my third episode of the global show I did for CNBC and I walked from the studio to the Regent Hotel in ten minutes and ten minutes later stood with the most important figure in global commerce and one of its legends to this day!”
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Penny Wong, Australian Foreign Minister