![]() Victorians are never ones to foreground home state racing superiority, so the fact Melburnians were exclusively granted hampers at the expense of interstate attendees “due to COVID restrictions” was extremely quickly glossed over.Ĭhef Guy Grossi was on hand to ensure guests could sort their formaggio from their caponata. It is a sad 2021 fact that the closest any punters will get to the Birdcage at Flemington for spring racing may well be the Guy Grossi picnic hamper delivered on Tuesday to their front door.Īn event! It might have been conducted via Zoom, but the tiramisu and felice cocktails were real enough to ensure a bumper turnout for TAB’s spring racing launch, even if the original venue of the Flemington rooftop on a perfect spring day was kaput.Ībout 90 stakeholders and media zoomed in. One month earlier the adrenalin junkie was knocked unconscious off his rented e-scooter in Frankfurt. ![]() A year ago he picked up a three year gig to assist the government of Gibraltar in its free trade negotiations with Australia. At least he had plenty of work to sustain him. He kicked off the year under lockdown as COVID unexpectedly prolonged what was initially meant to be a short summer sojourn to Australia and a jaunt to his beach house in the upmarket beach hamlet of Carrickalinga in South Australia. Last year was a quiet one for our longest serving foreign minister who served as high commissioner in Britain. Downer noted the directorship would be a “most interesting” challenge for him and he “looked forward to re-engaging with the many close contacts I still have in the US, Denmark and Greenland”. Ironbark managing director Michael Jardine pronounced the appointment a “tremendous coup” for the business. ![]() Now one of her predecessors, Alexander Downer, has just been appointed to the board of ASX microcap zinc miner Ironbark Zinc. Julie Bishop got in a couple of years ago as a special adviser to the board of Controlled Thermal Resources said to be close to hitting the big time due to interest in its US Hell’s Kitchen lithium mining operation. ![]()
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