Event #18

Louise Waterhouse: Driving Three Kings

Thu 8 Oct 2026

Louise Waterhouse + Sean Jacobs

Underground Theatre

Regular Program

#Performances

Thu 8 Oct 2026 - 4:30pm

Underground Theatre

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#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Louise Waterhouse: Driving Three Kings

In conversation with Sean Jacobs
4:30–5:30pm, Thursday 8 October, Underground Theatre

Driving Three Kings is no ordinary political memoir. Since 1995, Louise Waterhouse has proudly served Tonga – the only uncolonised Pacific nation – as Honorary Consul-General, a role held by her father, Bill, before her. Drawing on fifty years of her family’s engagement with Tonga, Waterhouse charts the nation’s rapid rise on the global stage, bringing rich personal insight and lively anecdotes – including Tonga’s debut at the 2024 Winter Olympics and Waterhouse’s claim to fame as the only person to have driven all three modern Tongan kings.

#Artists

Louise Waterhouse

Louise Waterhouse is Honorary Consul General for Tonga and author of Driving Three Kings, a memoir of royalty, diplomacy and friendship drawn from five decades of family service to the Kingdom, offering a candid and passionate 'behind-the-scenes' portrait of Tonga and its relationship with Australia.

Sean Jacobs

Sean Jacobs is a Papua New Guinean-born Australian writer, and government relations and public policy specialist. He is a former Brisbane City Council election candidate, ministerial adviser, United Nations worker, international youth volunteer, and national water polo champion. Sean holds a BA (International Relations) from Griffith University and a Postgraduate Certificate in Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism from Macquarie University. He also holds qualifications from the Australian National Security College, the Australian Institute of Management and the University of New England.