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NAB back to square one on hunt for government relations boss
Four months after firing the start gun on finding a successor to Philippa King, NAB has been left in the lurch after an exhaustive search process chose a candidate who decided against taking the government relations role.
- by Samantha Hutchinson and Stephen Brook
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Coffee dynasty’s family trust dispute froths up
Traditionally, the Valmorbida family was famed for giving us Lavazza coffee, and a type of social esuberanza that made the coffee brand’s Flemington’s Birdcage marquee such a frothy hit year after year. But now a legal dispute over a family trust that pits family patriarch Mariano Valmorbida against his late son Adrian Valmorbida’s widow Kairu “Erica” Chan threatens to boil over.
- by Samantha Hutchinson and Stephen Brook
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Convicted cocaine trafficker launches defamation action
Lawyer turned author and filmmaker Andrew Fraser is taking his former business partner Victor Susman to court.
- by Samantha Hutchinson and Stephen Brook
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From newsman to bluesman: What Phil Williams did next
ABC’s former foreign correspondent Phil Williams has reinvented himself as the frontman of a country-folk outfit.
- by Samantha Hutchinson and Stephen Brook
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New partner in the Frydenberg family
The wife of the Treasurer is celebrating a major work promotion.
- by Stephen Brook and Samantha Hutchinson
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Guard changes from Savill to Symond in Paddington
Aussie Home Loans founder John Symond has paid $5.3 million for Paddington’s Savill Galleries.
- by Samantha Hutchinson and Stephen Brook
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Lawyers on deck for off-water collision in Sydney-Hobart
Any yacht race can only have one winner. So too an off-water collision between some of the sailing fraternity’s highest profile members and biggest egos.
- by Samantha Hutchinson and Stephen Brook
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Event functions as political speed dating for Labor MPs
It’s less than a week until the ALP’s fundraisers leap into action for the Federal Labor Business Exchange - expected to be one of the party’s biggest money spinners of the year.
- by Samantha Hutchinson and Stephen Brook
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Love on the home front for Porter after rough week
While things have gone quiet on the legal front, there have been happier developments in Christian Porter’s life. The minister has quietly started dating Sydney-based criminal lawyer Karen Espiner.
- by Samantha Hutchinson and Stephen Brook
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Albo’s digital strip search in bitter spat with unions
Spare a thought for Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese and Labor’s National Executive. The ALP’s 22-member decision-making body was forced to hand over their phones, computers and pretty much every typed document for legal discovery.
- by Samantha Hutchinson and Stephen Brook
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Human rights violators beware - don’t you know who’s coming
Former federal Labor MP and senator Belinda Neal is turning her attentions to international human rights violators. “President Xi Jinping, don’t you know who I am?“.
- by Samantha Hutchinson and Stephen Brook