Meyne Wyatt doesn’t hold back: ‘I was always a bit of a ratbag’

Of the viral monologue he delivered in Q&A in 2020, Meyne Wyatt says: ‘I had to bring it.’ Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

At Meyne Wyatt’s father’s wake, Ken and Ben Wyatt were talking politics.

Ken Wyatt, Meyne’s uncle, was until recently the Liberal minister for Indigenous Australians; Ben Wyatt, Meyne’s cousin, who at the time was treasurer for WA’s Labor government.