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Move over, Met Gala: Labor’s budget night bash the big ticket in town
Tickets to a Labor budget night fundraiser have sold out. The Liberals, meanwhile, can’t fill their tables.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
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You come at Kyle Sandilands’ salary, you best not miss
The crude, rude and fabulously wealthy shock jock’s salary details could be handed to opposing lawyers after the radio industry lost a fight in the Copyright Tribunal.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
A Zoom speech from Joe Hockey? That’ll be $20,000 please
Ten years after declaring the “age of entitlement” was over, the former treasurer’s time comes with a hefty price tag.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Box billionaire goes Pratty in pink at the Met Gala
Visy cardboard king Anthony Pratt was one of the brightest figures on the glamour carpet in New York, if not the best dressed.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Kerryn Phelps’ strange wake-up call to her fellow Australians
The former Wentworth MP appeared to claim that Australian democracy was under threat from sharia in a deleted post on X.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Calling the shots: Josh Frydenberg’s second life as a junior footy coach
The former federal treasurer and Goldman Sachs high-flyer is living his best life coaching a junior Australian rules side in Melbourne.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman
Kylea Tink tools up for the next federal election
The teal independent North Sydney MP has 15 current staffers, and is looking for more.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman
‘Be brave, speak up’: Embattled Seven’s message to staff
Seven West Media is urging staff to report inappropriate behaviour after weeks of headlines about cultural problems at the network.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Cold War warrior Tony Abbott takes the good fight to Canada
The former prime minister has landed yet another plum think tank role, this time with Canada’s Macdonald Laurier Institute.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Soldier on: BRS and Channel Seven stick tight
Amid all the fuss over network Seven and Bruce Lehrmann, don’t think we’ve forgotten about its dogged defence of Ben Roberts-Smith.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
Seven promotes controversial editor accused of lewd, drunken behaviour
Chris Dore, the former editor of The Australian who resigned after allegedly making lewd comments to women, has been promoted in the post-Lehrmann reshuffle at Seven.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell