In the midst of being flayed for that poorly timed lunch with Barrenjoey’s traders last year, then-RBA governor Philip Lowe decided to have a go at playing victim over how it had been leaked to this masthead.
He cancelled his deputy (now Westpac fortune teller) Luci Ellis from a scheduled appearance at Barrenjoey because there has to be “courtesy” that people won’t “blab to the press the next day” about closed-door briefings.
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Mark Di Stefano is Rear Window columnist, based in the Sydney newsroom. He previously worked at BuzzFeed, the Financial Times and The Information before joining the Financial Review as a media and tech correspondent. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Email Mark at mark.distefano@afr.com
