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I always felt a bit ambivalent about Jeff Kennett, the former premier of Victoria, Australia. Yes, he is an arch-conservative but he has one of those personalities that you can't ignore, summed up by the famous Saturday Night Live joke "I'm Jeff Kennett, and you're not!" - a bit like an Antipodean Norman Tebbitt or Newt Gingrich. Well, I was surprised to hear that Jeff is now spearheading 'Beyond Blue', a pressure group on improving treatment and resources for depressed people in Australia. Here he is talking to Terry Lane on Radio National's 'The National Interest', following the tragedy of Cornelia Rau, the Australian woman who was locked up in a detention centre for ten months as a suspected illegal immigrant.