In March at the ARIA Music Awards of 1988 Meldrum was a presenter . A fracas developed between band manager , Gary Morris , accepting awards for Midnight Oil , and Meldrum . Morris felt that foreign artists such as Bryan Ferry should not present awards to local artists and made fun of Ferry 's deliberately crumpled suit . Meldrum objected to Morris ' disrespect to Ferry and he and Morris became embroiled . At the 1991 ceremony Morris provided a 20-minute acceptance speech on behalf of Midnight Oil : Meldrum disapproved of its length in the media . However , in 1993 , when Meldrum received his ARIA Special Achievement Award for services to the music industry he provided one of the longest acceptance speeches in the ceremony 's history
ARIA Music Awards of 1988
ARIA Music Awards of 1988
Molly Meldrum