In the meantime, demonstrating the can-do spirit he made famous – and then infamous – he's getting on with the job himself.

With his wife Lisa Newman, he registered a company, Araluen Capital, days after he resigned as premier to make way for the ascension of Annastacia Palaszczuk (which we still haven't quite got our head around).

And, in recent weeks, he's been getting down to business.

He's joined forces with agricultural entrepreneur Andrew Bate to become chairman of robotic agricultural firm SwarmFarm Robotics three weeks ago, according to documents filed with the ASIC registry. [The documents also reveal his middle name: Kevin. How did we not know that?]

Newman's also joined another related company with Bate – Advanced Agricultural Systems. That'll teach Alan Jones for saying all those rotten things on the radio about how Newman wanted to destroy prime agricultural land.

And at the start of June, Newman became a director – and, through Araluen, an investor – in cloud technology company LinkSprite Australia.

So far, so small, but he's clearly keeping busy.

And all while writing his autobiography (out in October) with co-writer and former Cairns MP Gavin King.

King told us on Thursday that he had interviewed Newman the day before for two hours about his three years as premier (over the phone as the frenetic Newman drove his car).

"Even I was surprised by some of the frank admissions of the political failings," King says. "We spoke about Clive Palmer and Alan Jones – the list went on and on." Did it ever.