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<\/p>\nIt\u2019s not uncommon to want to keep the celebrations going into the night when your footy team wins, especially in September.<\/p>\n
What is less common, however, is that the house you kick on to is Kiribilli. Yes, that\u2019s right, Kirribilli House. As in the home of the prime minister.<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s exactly what happened last weekend when Anthony Albanese\u2019s Hawthorn held off GWS in Sydney in an elimination final.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeers back at mine!\u201d the PM exclaimed to the Hollywood Hawks.<\/p>\n
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Prime Minster Anthony Albanese and Hawthorn president Andy Gowers.Credit: Marija Ercegovac\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
OK, so we\u2019ve used a little creative licence with that quote, but you get the picture.<\/p>\n
What is absolute fact, though, is that Hawthorn president Andrew Gowers, CEO Ash Klein and a few more senior Hawks staff members were invited for a celebratory drink back at Kirribilli House.<\/p>\n
While a couple followed the prime minister\u2019s official convoy, a few others, including Gowers, had to Uber. Quick side note: imagine typing Kirribilli House into the Uber search? (Surely you have to order Uber Black.)<\/p>\n
Anyway, about halfway from the Giants\u2019 home ground in Western Sydney to Albo\u2019s residence, Gowers became anxious.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t come empty-handed, can I?\u201d Gowers thought. So he asked the Uber driver to make a quick detour to a bottle shop.<\/p>\n
Now consider, if you will, being on the way to the prime minister\u2019s house for drinks. What do you buy? A nice Blanc de Blanc, perhaps? Maybe you go all out and try to impress him with a bottle of Grange? (Sorry, Hutchy, last time, I promise)<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n Well, not Gowers. He buys a slab of Victoria Bitter. Yep, that\u2019s right. The president of the Hawks rocks up to Kirribilli House and hands the PM a case of Green Demons. You couldn\u2019t make it up.<\/p>\n The PM celebrates a Hawthorn win in June this year with coach Sam Mitchell.Credit: AFL Photos<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you are a guest of someone\u2019s house, you should take something,\u201d Gowers told Scoop in September.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought to myself, what better than some Victoria Bitter to give the Sydney and Canberra-based prime minister?\u201d<\/p>\n Unfortunately, the VBs were not opened. Instead, the PM served his own beer. Literally. The \u201cAlbo Pale Ale\u201d (made by Willie the Boatman) was the beer of choice that day, among some other fine wines, we\u2019re told. The Hawthorn guests were astonished by the sheer beauty of the location, including the unique view of Sydney Harbour.<\/p>\n Suddenly, Albo darted inside and returned to the balcony with an Eveready torch. \u201cCome with me,\u201d he said. And when the PM gives you an order, you follow.<\/p>\n So, with the sun fully set, the small party descended on the illustrious lawns of Kirribili, with Albo leading the way.<\/p>\n Eventually, after fossicking through some trees, they found the PM\u2019s secret spot, with arguably the best and unarguably the most exclusive view in NSW.<\/p>\n At this point, a Hawthorn staff member commented at his surprise that there weren\u2019t more security members present.<\/p>\n \u201cOh, they\u2019re here,\u201d the prime minister said. \u201cYou just can\u2019t see them.\u201d<\/p>\n We approached the PM\u2019s office for comment on the adventurous night, and while they enjoyed the retelling of the story, they politely declined to comment.<\/p>\n All in all, it was a special night for the Hawks, the prime minister and even his family. Albanese\u2019s son, Nathan, who\u2019s in his mid-20s and, like his father, is a keen Hawthorn supporter, also joined the festivities.<\/p>\n And maybe there\u2019ll be another Hawks party this week. Word has reached us that Albo hasn\u2019t ruled out darting to Melbourne this Friday to catch Hawthorn\u2019s preliminary final against arch rivals Geelong.<\/p>\n Maybe he\u2019ll even get to finally have a VB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not uncommon to want to keep the celebrations going into the night when your footy team wins,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-143230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/51a6661b421b0e105db0ba0e582974490e3bba25.jpeg\")
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