In fairness to Elizabeth Alexander, the 74-year-old Medibank Private chair seeking re-election for another three years, she's only a year older than David Crawford, who'll be 91 by the time the South African coal assets (along with him) are spun out of South32 and renamed North by Northwest.

But really, then there's daylight. And then there's Leapin' Len Ainsworth. Thin Lizzy's a spring chicken next to the pokies king, who attended the Roosevelt inaugurations (Teddy's not Franklin's) and had his first hip replacement before Hitler invaded Poland.