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Not a Victorian club in sight, but nation’s heavyweights at MCG for grand final
Australia’s political, business and media leaders gathered in the MCG’s Olympic Room for the AFL Commission lunch before the Sydney-Brisbane season decider.
- by Stephen Brook
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Happy days! Teal independent Monique Ryan finally gets her electric car
The Kooyong MP had said in the past that she couldn’t afford an EV.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Buy gum! How our British bash got a bit expensive and didn’t bring the brass
It was the off again, on again Australia Day celebration in London that almost didn’t happen, and now we’ve got the bill.
- by Liam Mannix and Kishor Napier-Raman
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Ex-Seven producer Taylor Auerbach’s defamation threat against News Corp
Taylor Auerbach, whose bombshell evidence at Bruce Lehrmann’s failed defamation trial rocked Seven, says he was defamed by an article in The Australian.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman
What did John Setka do next? Get a tattoo
The fallen trade unionist has used the medium of ink on skin to issue a defiant message.
- by Stephen Brook
Kim and Kerry preach to the ABC faithful
The ABC chair faced former ABC presenter Kerry O’Brien in the unlikely setting of the holiday hot spot.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Naughty Sandro! Walking his dog just cost artist Vincent Fantauzzo $7000
A dog-eat-dog melee on the streets of St Kilda has cost Fantauzzo a pretty penny – and a peek behind the curtain of his private life with wife Asher Keddie.
- by Stephen Brook
Anthony Pratt reveals a portrait fit for a king – but what’s that through the window?
One of the world’s best-known portrait painters has gone from painting royalty to packaging king Anthony Pratt.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
This week’s most evasive MPs, plus signs it’s business as usual for the CFMEU
Awkward timing for a big developer and its CFMEU dealings, while MPs in Spring Street duck and weave.
- by Mathew Dunckley
‘BS, BS, BS!’: Saul Eslake unleashes on airlines after long-haul horror
Hell hath no fury like a delayed economist and the last thing Qantas needed was to annoy one of the nation’s best policy brains. But, yet, they did.
- by Mathew Dunckley
Nicole Kidman early shot at gold medal as Olympics superfan
The actor is heading to France to cheer on the Matildas.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
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