Star Entertainment director Sally Pitkin was all set to be the star attraction on Thursday night in Brisbane at the exclusive annual dinner for fellows of the Queensland chapter of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

You can just picture the swaggering crowd at the Queensland Museum including, surely, all the board luminaries from ABC Learning, Billabong, Blue Sky Alternative Investments, Knights Insolvency, MFS and Retail Food Group. As every financial planner should warn their clients, never invest where the palm trees grow.