Age has not dulled Graham Richardson’s appetite for lunch.
With billions of dollars up for grabs,former politicians and advisers know they can charge handsomely to help big companies gain access to mammoth federal deals.
There aren’t too many senators to be found in Anthony Albanese’s new ministry. Plus corporate titans follow the PM to Indonesia.
30 years ago,Senator Graham Richardson - implicated in the Marshall Islands affair but proclaiming his innocence - resigned his Keating Government portfolio.
In a letter to Communications Minister Paul Fletcher in March last year,the three regional TV bosses warned that some services,including news and current affairs,could soon be turned off. After that,they said they could experience complete market failure.
In 1996,a dinner of prawn cutlets in Chinatown helped to guarantee the success of the Sydney Olympics and the future of the Australian Olympic Committee.
Branch stacking is as old as politics in Australia,but as we now know,it has grown ever more toxic.
Mike Pezzullo has been been at the peak of the public service for the past seven years.
Whatever politicians thought about Alan Jones,his influence was something they could not turn away from,not least for how he leveraged it across print and TV as well as radio.
From high-society mover and shaker in the 1980s and'90s,Glen-Marie Frost now lives in public housing and shops at Kmart. How this upbeat born survivor has dealt with her changed circumstances offers life lessons for everyone.