There was another bloke called Jack Absalom who used to drive a Sigma station wagon to prove you didn't need a 4x4 to go bush. Used to sing poems and beat the drum on a beer carton?
There was also a guy who was into big croc's and had bare feet all the time, don't remember his name.
Irwin had an American wife, she was the likely the marketing arm of the outfit as his flamboyance is considered differently by Aussies than it would be from the market she was familiar with.
Malcolm Douglass
