Tate tastelessness nobbles Nick; Jailhouse blues rock Corrective Services NSW
Former young rich-lister Nick Bell is trying his hand at self-marketing, posting videos of himself taking ice-baths, talking up the benefits of krill oil and oxygen therapy.
And for a minute there he was hat-tipping the loathsome Andrew Tate on his talent for creating viral content. “Love him or Hate him (sic) … Andrew Tateknows what he’s doing when it comes to social media,” Bell wrote on LinkedIn. “Play the game and manipulate the system. (legally of course)”.
Nice disclaimer! Best believe the pro-Tate sentiment didn’t go down a treat with some of Bell’s followers, not least while Tate, a self-described misogynist, faces charges for rape and sex trafficking (which he denies, no less).
One can only wonder how far Bell’s praise for Tate might extend. Would he even be aware of Tate’s previous remarks on women being “intrinsically lazy”, or that they should “bear responsibility” for sexual assault, or that there’s “no such thing as an independent female”?
Of course not, said Bell, who deleted his post about Tate not long after putting it up online.
And was he asked to do so by Arq Group CEO Tristan Sternson and Outsourcey co-founder Jarrod Kagan? They’re his partners in a Tate-esque ‘‘biohack’’ play called Super Young, registered about one week ago. Can’t imagine they would have loved the fawning.
No, no and no, said Bell. “It was just causing a headache,” he told Margin Call of the deleted post. “I’m in marketing and I talk about peoples’ marketing strategies. It had nothing to do with his (Tate’s) political views at all. I don’t even follow him.”
Jailhouse blues rock Corrective Services NSW
A piece of news being kept out of the headlines right now involves some police charges laid against two employees working for Corrective Services NSW.
These women came to the attention of detectives over – shall we say – some alleged liaisons they were having with inmates at Geoffrey Pearce Correctional Centre, located on the outskirts of Sydney.
Both were charged last week but the matter gets a little awkward for one of them, Jessica Elguindy, because her father is a big wheel in the prison hierarchy, a general manager who received a Queen’s birthday honours medal in 2022 for distinguished service.
The second employee, Amber Clavell, has been slapped with charges that include allegedly smuggling drugs in for her boyfriend, this all going down just weeks after a Special Commission of Inquiry delivered a damning report into the administration of some jails, ending the career of Commissioner Kevin Corcoran (who hasn’t been replaced yet).
Worst of all is that there’s said to be footage of some of the alleged relations now circulating within the prison system – and by that we mean among inmates using contraband phones. The content was apparently recorded in the first instance using an allegedly smuggled device.
No interest
The second Bell inquiry continues pummelling Star Entertainment into the ground, crashing its share price, making its business look almost unviable, and seeing off its chairman, David Foster, this week. All because of Philip Crawford, by the way, the head of the NSW Independent Casino Commission, who’s presumably counting the sweat beads forming on the brow of every witness and totally, utterly engrossed in the daily hearings.
After all, he dropped this on The Star like a bomb going off in a Michael Bay film.
Well, apparently he’s one of the few people not paying attention at all. An official at the regulator confirmed that Crawford is currently out of Sydney and very much on holiday.
Really? Now? We hear he’s on vacation in the lush surroundings of Tuscany. Not that he was willing to confirm it when we asked directly, of course.
Hooray for Henry
The results are in from the chesterfield-studded confines of Melbourne’s male-only Australian Club, which held its first-ever election for club president on Monday evening.
Melbourne Airport chairman and club president Peter Hay announced that 60 per cent of the membership voted, which means about 900 fogeys (young and old) participated, delivering the title to former tupperware salesman Charles Henry against contender and former lawyer Justin Lethlean, who was said to have bore the defeat like a mensch.
Brave move
Nicole Moody, founder of Hunter Communications, looks to have shut down her business started almost nine years ago to take up a job with Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue as global director of communications.
Wise move to shut down a thriving business for a job at Fortescue? Maybe not given the high rates of turnover in the company’s executive team, especially among female leaders.
Moody replaces Fiona Sugden, who bailed in February to take a job in … the Prime Minister’s office. Talk about jumping onto a wall of spikes. Nuff said.
Loss for Victory
When you think about it, the collapse of Bonza hardly augurs well for football club Melbourne Victory.
Both are owned by private equity group 777 Partners and it was only last year that Victory’s directors and auditors warned of serious financial hardship that threatened to jeopardise the club’s existence as a going concern.
To wit, the FY23 accounts reported a $7.6 million loss on a previous year’s loss of $6.7 million, along with $2.7 million in liabilities.
Rytenskild eyes his old Tabcorp job
First Adam Rytenskild was dumped as Tabcorp CEO, now he’s won a Fair Work Commission case against it, so could he be plotting a return to the position since filled by Gillon McLachlan?
MinRes in game of cat and mouse
The Legal Practice Board of Western Australia is looking into MinRes and its lawyers’ conduct, which is interesting timing as its company secretary has just been made legal counsel to the board.