The highly prestigious Melbourne Cricket Club committee is chaired by ex-Transurban and UBS operative Fred Oldfield and totally stacked with luminaries like Goldman Sachs investment banking head Christian Johnston, former Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu and ex-EY Oceania chief (now Bupa chairman) Tony Johnson. They oversee an institution to which full membership gets you guaranteed access to Melbourne’s most hallowed grounds on its most holy feast days (like the AFL Grand Final), as well as the chance to vote at annual general meetings.

Still, there are members and there are members, and knowing how to nominate to the committee used to be a bit tricky. Before the pandemic, to even know an election was coming in time to put one’s hat in the ring, you had to walk past just the right poster at the right time. Or just be told, as we’re sure was usually the case.