Colin Hay's flawless acceptance speech and Sydney Olympics story, APRA Awards, 2023

Men at Work's Colin Hay accepted the Ted Albert at the APRA Awards this week. His speech is truly magnificent, an early contender for best speech of 2023.

People send me links to great speeches. They ping in to my phone or inbox, and I’m always very grateful, because modern media is an ocean, not a stream, and a curator needs to cast more than one fishing net.

This week, Speakola subscriber Peter Whitehouse sent me a one line email:

‘I nominate Colin Hay’s APRA speech for Speakola’.

I opeend the link, the…