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Anthony Pratt reveals a portrait fit for a king – but what’s that through the window?
One of the world’s best-known portrait painters has gone from painting royalty to packaging king Anthony Pratt.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
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This week’s most evasive MPs, plus signs it’s business as usual for the CFMEU
Awkward timing for a big developer and its CFMEU dealings, while MPs in Spring Street duck and weave.
- by Mathew Dunckley
‘That’s just Alastair’: Jeff Kennett’s candid assessment of ‘firecracker’ coach Clarkson
The former Victorian premier and ex-Hawthorn president weighs in on the controversy the Hawks can’t shake. Plus, an Aussie surprise at Comic-con in San Diego.
- by Mathew Dunckley and Michael Idato
‘BS, BS, BS!’: Saul Eslake unleashes on airlines after long-haul horror
Hell hath no fury like a delayed economist and the last thing Qantas needed was to annoy one of the nation’s best policy brains. But, yet, they did.
- by Mathew Dunckley
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Horticultural alert! Wild mushrooms found growing at Erin Patterson prison
Prison officials were sent into a flap and had to take immediate action after the discovery.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
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Both sides now: Anthony Pratt hires Scott Morrison and Daniel Andrews
The Melbourne box billionaire has shown admirable bipartisanship in his hiring of some influential consultants.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
No, Brighton, Geoffrey Robertson is not buying a mansion for Julian Assange
The Brighton jungle drums are beating hard. But the famed human rights lawyer is not in the real estate business.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Paris penny-pinching leaves politicians at the starting blocks
Australia’s political leaders have wisely decided that swanning off to the Olympics during a cost-of-living crisis isn’t a good look and will cheer on the team from home.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Magazine’s planned profile of star conservative columnist put on ice
The Monthly has had a rethink, which is a shame.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Did you hear the one about the submarine joke the Aussie pollie made in Paris? It sank
CBD has a word of caution – don’t mention the submarines.
- by David Estcourt and Kishor Napier-Raman
Bunkering down: Golf club sandstorm in the sand belt
Members are teed off at the handling of a proposed merger of two prestigious Melbourne golf clubs.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman