It was lunchtime on March 11, 2017, and Zenon Kosmider was preparing to leave work early. The 22-year-old was a copy kid at Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph, but his mind was on his other gig, a one-day-a-week internship at The Betoota Advocate. At The Daily Telegraph, his job involved answering calls and doing whatever he was told. But that afternoon, for Betoota, he was about to help interview the prime minister.
That Malcolm Turnbull would give an interview to The Betoota Advocate was noteworthy in itself. That he would agree to do it livestreamed on Facebook, on a Saturday, crammed on a small couch at The Old Fitzroy Hotel in Sydney’s Woolloomooloo, with nine schooners of beer arrayed on the coffee table in front of him, was even more revealing.
