Oh brother, I’m back in the American heartland

Billionaire Anthony Pratt takes the Rear Window columnist to Kentucky, where he finds a Democrat governor campaigning in Republican territory.

Joe AstonColumnist

Sep 15, 2023 – 2.55pm

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I’d like a mushroom omelette.”

It was noon in Melbourne on an autumn day and it struck me immediately that my lunch companion, packaging billionaire Anthony Pratt, was endeavouring to order breakfast.

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Joe AstonColumnistJoe Aston is the founder of Rampart and the best-selling author of The Chairman’s Lounge: The inside story of how Qantas sold us out. From 2012 to 2023, Joe helmed The Australian Financial Review’s Rear Window column.