We return now to David Collard, being the impeccably connected, Geelong-born battery businessman who recent court documents imply kept renting a luxury Rolls-Royce as his empire collapsed around him (paying payroll is for schmucks).

Corporate undertakers are crawling over the Australian arm of his global Scale Facilitation empire, the local division having been forcibly collapsed following an unpaid creditor’s petition last November. But investigations have hit a blockage, according to a report to creditors released on Wednesday.