A mere $40,000 a year will deliver you not only an outstanding education for your young boy at Cranbrook, it will also buy you courtside seats to one of the most curious spectacles of private school politics in Sydney’s history.

Considering the wealth amassed by interested parties to the school, such as Cranbrook parents Atlassian billionaires Scott Farquhar and Kim Jackson, or Gretel Packer (whose father Kerry and brother James are also alumni), 40 grand is but a drop in the ocean to witness such phenomena.