It was a case of now you see ’em, now you don’t when Liberal candidate Amelia Hamer decided to ditch one of the trappings of wealth for a weekend photo op.
generated positive coverage for the Liberal Party with her impressive win in the Malvern preselection at the weekend.and owns several properties – immediately doubled down on the day.noticed something was amiss.
Hamer had rocked up to the preselection at Caulfield Racecourse earlier on the Sunday wearing a short string of pearls.There is no doubt that the organic gemstones formed inside molluscs are popular on the conservative side of politics. If only ex-leaderhad remembered to wear his pearls before he lost his leadership spill last week, things might have been ever so different.Curious as to the fate of the dematerialising jewellery, we contacted Hamer direct. “Hi Stephen, Here you go: The people of Victoria are more concerned about the state’s debt growing at more than $2 million an hour than they are about female politicians’ fashion choices.” Columnist Niki Savva with Laurie Oakes at the launch for her fifth book, Earthquake, at the Paperchain Bookstore. Canberra’s chi-chi Paperchain Bookstore in Manuka was bursting at its elegant seams on Tuesday night for the Canberra launch ofSavva had long sworn there would be no fourth book in the unofficial political leadership series, but the 2025 election made a return irresistible. But what about a fifth? Savva riffed offSitting pollies were absent from the launch due to the sitting week, but plenty fronted a private reception at the Commonwealth Club later, including TreasurerAnd the bookshop is not without a sense of humour. Next to Savva’s book in the front-window display wason Tuesday at Parliament House, Canberra. Why? Well, the vastly connected chair of the Herald & Weekly Times wears very many hats. Apart from the HWT gig, Fowler is also chair of Tourism Australia, the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal and the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Plus, she is a board member of the National Gallery of Australia and digital firm Tech Mahindra and is on the advisory board of Visy/Pratt USA.As one comms exec told us: “There is no room that Penny walks into in Melbourne that people don’t know her.” Now she has an extra gig: Fowler, who was made a Member of the Order of Australia last year for her work with artistic and charitable organisations, has signed up to be a director on the advisory board of marketing and communications agency Bastion. But did this mean Bastion, founded by brothersmore than 15 years ago, has gone all in on News Corp? A clear conflict of interest, we hear you cry. “It couldn’t be further from the truth,” explains Bastion co-founder Fergus. “It is not even close to the point of working with Penny. Penny has been very clear … she does a lot of things. It is not in our thought process.” And the Parliament House caper? Fowler, as News Corp Australia community ambassador, was accompanying the winners of the 5th Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee to meet, he kept a low profile, seeking shelter from the storm of public opprobrium that had battered his final years as chief executive of the airline. In fact, Joyce was a hard man to find for many months, quietly stepping down as chair of the Sydney Theatre Company as it was engulfed by debate over the war in Gaza.Now, Joyce is slowly inching back into the public glare. On Wednesday morning, he spoke at the launch of a new book -The wealthy harbourside enclave hosted Australia’s first international airport in the 1930s, a fact that clearly thrilled Joyce, a keen student of aviation history, who wrote the foreword to the book, and who addressed the small crowd gathered at the Sydney Seaplanes lounge.CBD was, of course, more interested in another upcoming tome, Joyce’s own tell-all memoir, to be published by Hardie Grant next year, in which the former high-flying CEO promises to set the record straight.best known for haranguing Joyce into an early retirement, burying the hatchet and helping out as ghost writer, we hear Alan is writing the whole thing himself.is a special correspondent for The Age and CBD columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He was previously deputy editor of The Sunday Age. He is a former media editor of The Australian and spent six years in London working for The Guardian.is a CBD columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Previously he worked as a reporter for Crikey, covering federal politics from the Canberra Press Gallery.
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