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Myriam Robin

People-watching at Tennis Australia’s court of miracles

It’s been public knowledge for a while, but we had to see it to believe it: private equity baron Ben Gray with his arm around the Rail, Tram and Bus Union’s Victorian secretary Luba Grigorovitch.

One the corporate turnaround barbarian, the other bare-knuckle labour rights protagonist. At Rod Laver Arena for the Australian Open women’s final on Saturday night, the son of Tasmanian Liberal premier Robin Gray clearly smitten with a powerbroker of Victorian Labor’s militant industrial left.

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Myriam Robin is a senior writer based in the Melbourne newsroom. She has previously been a Rear Window columnist and editor, and before that reported on financial markets and media. Connect with Myriam on Twitter. Email Myriam at myriam.robin@afr.com

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