Few rooms have ever held so many influential Australians as were ushered into the Hyatt Regency in Darling Harbour in Sydney to celebrate The Australian Financial Review’s Platinum 70 Year anniversary dinner. Captains of industry mixed with masters of the capital markets who bumped shoulders with prime ministers, treasurers and regulators, each as instantly recognisable as the next. Particularly if you read this newspaper.

There were, in fact, 300 guests in their best black tie assembled to mark the occasion.