Kram from Spiderbait, Clint Hyndeman from Something For Kate and former Powderfinger guitarist Darren Middleton, along with the biggest celebrities in Golf, sang for Bob Hawke, who was too ill to attend the Jack Newton Classic in December.
The 85-year old legendary Prime Minister was almost in the Hunter Valley for the two-day golf event but had to turn back and miss the 36-hole tournament on doctor’s orders.
In past years, a regular fixture of the Jack Newton Celebrity Dinner is former Prime Minister Bob Hawke singing all four verses of ‘Waltzing Matilda’ for the diners after the game. The former PM started the ‘Waltzing Matilda’ tradition at ‘The Jack’ and although he couldn’t be there last month, the crowd of celebrity golfing pros, and Kram, Clint and Darren, kept the Hawke tradition alive.
Award winning actor Nathaniel Dean, who was attending the event, came up with the plan. All celebrity players would sing the song for Bob.
The Jack Newton Classic was held at Pokolbin in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales and December 17 and 18.
The famous faces in the crowd were:
Frank Barrett
Dean Brady
Tim Brasher
Michael Buettner
Jack Campbell
Andrew Cornwall
Brad Cranfield
Richard Davies
Nathaniel Dean
Ben Dixon
Adam D’Sylva
Gyton Grantley
Joel Griffiths
Michael Hagan
Craig Hamilton
Mark Hohn
Graeme Hughes
Clint Hyndman
Ben Ikin
Kram
Terry Lamb
Lincon Lewis
Wally Lewis
Scott Major
Chris Malone
Scott McGregor
Don McKinnon
Glenn McMillan
Justin Melvey
Steve Menzies
Darren Middleton
Ben Mingay
Rhys Muldoon
Clint Newton
Jack Newton
Michael O’connor
Dan Parks
Matt Parsons
Luke Priddis
Mike Rabbitt
Tim Ross
Andrew Ryan
Korbin Sims
Rick Stone
Shura Taft
Matthew Targett
James Tobin
Clayton Watson
