Do you watch Q&A on the ABC each Monday night? I do, well, at least I try every week.

One of my favourite Q&As was when former Prime Minister John Howard was on by himself – talk about live TV at its best! Howard was coming back into public life 2 years after his election defeat to Kevin Rudd and he had a question from David Hicks and a then a show thrown at him!

David Hicks asked the former PM if he believed he had been treated humanely during the 5 and a half years he spent in the Guantanamo Bay Military Prison. See below:

The other very notable thing that occured was an audience member -Peter Gray – threw a shoe at the former PM in response to one of his answers on the war in Iraq.

Well Mr Gray dies 6 months after the episode of Q&A from a cancer.

In his will he asked the ABC and Red Cross to auction the pair of shoes that he threw at the PM to raise money for the work of the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) in Iraq! How cool is that!

So today from 12pm the shoes will go up on Ebay to be sold to the highest bidder. The shoes will be up on Ebay for 10 days and all proceeds from the sale will be given to the ICRC in Iraq.

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