I was walking through Melbourne airport, probably on a Thursday night heading for Western Australia, when I heard my name being mentioned on a television at a bar in the Ansett terminal. I stepped into the bar to see the Hollywood star, Eric Bana, satirising me on Full Frontal. I raised my eyebrows and moved on.

The reason the Full Frontal team thought it fun to do two skits on me was my speech I made to the parliament regarding feral cats in Australia. Indeed, I suggested the only way feral cats could be eradicated to protect the native animals was to first take control of the domestics.

This story gained legs nationally and indeed internationally. I had American TV crews interviewing me, radio stations around the world talking to me and a story was in the front page of the New York Times. I had t’shirts sent to me, cards, songs and the story went crazy.

Everyone thought I was nuts.

Some twenty years later the federal government brought in laws to control feral cats and increased government funding to eradicate them. Claiming the only way to control ferals was to control domestics. REPORT

Twenty years after I raised the issue. Go figure.