Australian director, writer and producer, Baz Lurhmann, sent his 15-year-old children to the Geelong v Sydney AFL game on Saturday.

He says it had a massive impact on the pair, who are “New Yorkers, really”.

“For them to have come back to the country they love and sit there with a crowd cheering — that’s not happening on Broadway. That’s not happening anywhere in the world really,” he told Ross and Russel.

“We’re so lucky. I cannot even begin to tell you how lucky we are in this country.”

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