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    Alan Joyce’s bonus review in familiar hands

    This being corporate Australia, one doesn’t have to dig deep to find the key players already know one another.

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    • Myriam Robin
    Guzman y Gomez’s Steven Marks, with hugs between co-CEO Hilton Brett and co-founder Robert Hazan.

    Who’s who in the Guzman y Gomez fiesta

    This wasn’t an IPO debut. It was a pep rally. Steven Marks gathers the believers for his special debut on the ASX.

    • Mark Di Stefano and Primrose Riordan
    Perpetual chief executive Rob Adams isn’t saving much on office space.

    Office synergies a no-go in Perpetual’s Pendal takeover

    Pendal is moving offices. But not, funnily enough, into Perpetual’s.

    • Myriam Robin

    This Month

    Behold Twiggy: far right, bottom row.

    Twiggy’s hot air always seems to pass muster

    The wind farm Apple walked away from now has environmental approval, having promised to destroy a little less of a koala habitat.

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    • Myriam Robin
     Clive Palmer and Tucker Carlson in Brisbane on Wednesday.

    Clive Palmer’s private jet picks up Tucker Carlson

    The mining billionaire’s plane picked up a pain from Maine.

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    • Myriam Robin
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    Lachlan, Rupert and James Murdoch.

    Fourth gen Murdoch joins the family trade

    Lachlan’s son joins the family business, arriving in News Corp’s Sydney newsroom.

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    • Mark Di Stefano
    Mineral Resources boss Chris Ellison: reckons he’ll save money running an airline.

    Billionaire Chris Ellison wants his own airline. Are any for sale?

    A boss arriving to a Perth office via helicopter can’t expect his employees to be happy waiting for connecting flights from Kalgoorlie.

    • Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
    Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

    Curious case of the prime minister’s vanishing democracy speech

    For a man of conviction, Anthony Albanese’s marquee speech about democratic values going missing is quite the coincidence.

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    • Mark Di Stefano
    Accused fraudster Chris Marco and lawyer John O’Connor (right) arriving at the WA Supreme Court in March.

    Bonza’s administrator has form on spicy fees

    Administering a company with no assets of its own isn’t particularly profitable insolvency work. Including for Hall Chadwick – though not for lack of trying.

    • Myriam Robin
    New Tabcorp CEO and Blackstone adviser Gillon McLachlan.

    All in the family for Gil McLachlan’s fantastic corporate adventure

    The new jobs for the former AFL CEO include advising Blackstone, where his cousin is chairman of private equity.

    • Mark Di Stefano
    Cadence boss Charlie Buxton: local bus activist.

    Bus off! Charlie Buxton goes NIMBY for tennis court

    No historic property is complete without renovations. Or, if necessary, attempts to redirect a bus route so it doesn’t go past one’s tennis court. 

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    • Myriam Robin
    Rich Lister Kevin Seymour is not smiling now.

    Rich Lister’s war on Dexus vanishes its competition policy

    Amid Seymour Group’s volleys, Dexus has quietly deleted its competition policy from its website.

    • Myriam Robin
    Former Victorian premier Dan Andrews.

    Labor insider Sabina Husic snapped up by TikTok

    The ByteDance-owned video app needs friends in Canberra, turning to Sabina Husic in a new lobbying role.

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    • Mark Di Stefano
    All Bonza aircraft have left the country, but there’s money to be made from the corpse.

    Bonza! Hall Chadwick’s fees draw rebuke from 777 Partners

    Having Hall Chadwick run a hotline is certainly one way to rack up fees.

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    • Myriam Robin
    Richard White, Steven Marks, Paul Bassat and Morgan Stanley’s Andrew Hunter at the Morgan Stanley Summit in Sydney on Wednesday.

    Haters not invited on the Guzman y Gomez burrito rocket

    Barrackers for the blockbuster IPO will use every tool in the box to paint the Mexican chain as unfairly maligned.

    • Mark Di Stefano
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    Tassal fish pens in Tasmania.

    Big salmon hooks a sick media industry

    Swaths of the Tasmanian media market have been gobbled up by a Liberal-linked PR firm. Its most recent client is the powerful salmon industry.

    • Mark Di Stefano
    The former Rozelle, Sydney, home of Bill Papas. Jane MacLeod wrangled with TV crews just next door.

    Bill Papas’ Rozelle street hosts another global media frenzy

    TV cameras have returned to Bill Papas’ Sydney street – but funnily enough, not for him.

    • Myriam Robin
    Minister for Scam Prevention: Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones at the Global Fraud Summit in London.

    Stephen Jones dodges Dixon’s long tail of woe

    The rationale is blacked out, but it’s clear that in early 2023 it was already part of the plan. 

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    • Myriam Robin
    Guzman y Gomez founder Steven Marks.

    GyG’s well-connected investors feed the quacking ducks

    Demand for Guzman y Gomez’s shares shows investors of all stripes are buying the wonderful story.

    • Mark Di Stefano
    Peter Costello makes comments at Parliament House following the airport incident.

    Peter Costello’s sudden last dance

    The Nine chairman didn’t seem to be too concerned about board succession before his brain snap at Canberra Airport.

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    • Mark Di Stefano