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Colin Fassnidge's $22k dinner for Aussie farmers

SN ART: Colin Fassnidge's $22K dinner for Aussie farmers

Weipa is home to Catherine and John Kennedy, a pair of modest, self-made millionaires who forked out $22,300 for the dinner just so they could get the family to come for a visit.

"It’s so exciting, everyone’s so excited… I wanted to see all my friends and that was the way to get them here dinner with Colin," Catherine told Sunday Night.

They then decided to put Colin to good use in the community and offered another $25,000 to the charity if he would do a cooking class at the local school.

Colin agreed, and a quick dinner turned into a weekend of country shenanigans.



"I was told I was going to Weipa and then I may have said something rude," Colin told Sunday Night.

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"I’m in a position to help that’s what you do, you help other people, that’s what we’re here to do is to help."

The Kennedy’s know what it is to struggle and after watching the show they wanted to share some of their fortune with our battling farmers.

Just 15 years ago they had to borrow from family and friends to scrape together the $1 million dollars they needed to buy their company, Goodline, but last year they turned over a whopping $350 million.

"You know, we grew up with nothing and I had all hand me downs from my sisters because I was the youngest so I was just going to work to earn some money so I could have some new clothes," Catherine said.

"It’s kind of like you are grateful for what you have, gratitude makes you happy and compassion to give out to others makes you happy as well so it is self-serving in a sense."

So what do you serve for a $22,000 meal that is thousands of kilometres from a deli?

Check it out in the video above.