Malcolm misses his days of Glory

[Juliar]

But ignoring the irrelevance of funny old cranky Greeny BRossy and back to something relevant.

Did you hear that some nefarious body has copied and released Malcolm's book ?

https://morningmail.org/somebody-pirate ... ore-115340

https://morningmail.org/somebody-pirate ... ore-115340

[brian ross]

Yeah, turns out it was Scotty from Marketing's office...

[Juliar]

Bit more armchair arm waving from the funny little Greeny BRossy who is normally ignored. He is a big fan of Malcolm.

[Juliar]

Gosh, is nothing sacred ? Poor bitter Malcolm's impressive tome is purloined even before it is released.


Poor Malcolm - his last hurrah flops.


Someone's not playing by the book
By Samantha Hutchinson and Kylar Loussikian April 20, 2020 — 11.59pm

Malcolm Turnbull’s newly-released memoir The Bigger Picture gained some further publicity on Sunday courtesy of revelations that Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s senior advisor Nico Louw had leaked a copy of the book to almost 60 of his mates.

Between Thursday and Monday afternoon, Turnbull had more mentions in press clippings (1717) than any other politician except Morrison (4790), according to the media monitors at Streem. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg was a distant third, mentioned on 996 occasions.

While an apology to Turnbull and publisher Grant Hardie came from Louw late on Sunday, one question still remains: how did they find out their valuable intellectual property was quickly spreading across the Canberra bubble ahead of the official release on Monday?


Chuck the book at them...CREDIT:MATT GOLDING

It was a tip-off, this column understands, from Daisy Turnbull Brown. She is, of course, the ex-PM's daughter. And who can blame her? She confirmed the circulation of the e-book with one Liberal MP - who received it five times - before reporting it to Hardie Grant.

The publishing house’s boss, Sandy Grant, is understandably livid. “The Liberal Party jumped on it with delight and a lot of people have become ‘supers-preaders’,” Grant told CBD on Monday. “And it’s not easy to tell yet [the original source of the leak] but we certainly know that it did come from an individual in the PM’s office.”

He has also not ruled out legal action against a number of people, not just the original source of the e-book leak. “If Barnaby [Joyce] is crowing that he’s got a copy and doesn’t need to buy it, then they should be reporting it, not crowing about it,” he said.

Somehow, we think the good Samaritan who played a part in alerting Grant to the situation will find themselves spared any prospective court date.

THE SPORTING CROWD
Those clever creative types employed at online punting giant SportsBet have certainly had a busy month. Bereft of actual sporting fixtures to offer bets on, the Barni Evans-led outfit began offering more exotic products to its customers, including the chance to bet on whether the ASX would end up or down for the day. This, we first wrote on April 1, had caught the attention of the corporate regulator who considered it a possible financial product.

At the time, SportsBet told us they had pulled the ASX betting product because there was a lack of demand from the public. Five days ago, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission said that they, in fact, had forced the company to shut it down. They blamed the snafu on poor oversight due to its employees working from home.

PLAYING A STRAIGHT BAT
Shadow planning minister Tim Smith sure won the prize for left-field policy contributions during a pandemic on Sunday evening. Fresh from hitting out at chief health officer Brett Sutton for “bulls***” advice regarding the Victoria-only golfing ban, the outspoken MP then turned his attention to the next supposedly serious threat in his backyard - bats.

We kid you not.

In a Nine news report, viewers heard how constituents in the MP’s electorate of Kew were apparently nervous about a bat colony inside the nearby Yarra Bend reserve, particularly given reports from China which had named bats as the origin of the COVID-19 virus.

“It’s a problem, and it could be very dangerous,” elderly Kew resident Jane Hargreaves was captured on camera saying of the bats, to a sympathetic looking Smith.

Smith, for his own part, was in lockstep with the constituent, telling the reporter: “These bats are not constituents that I am happy to have.”

It’s worth noting it’s not the first time the pair have worked together on neighbourhood causes. After all, Hargreaves is a Liberal Party member based out of Smith’s own Kew branch. More notably however, she emerged as one of Smith’s most vocal backers during a particularly bruising preselection race in 2014, when Smith eventually won the seat against then-frontbencher and Napthine government minister Mary Wooldridge. Wooldridge was eventually redeployed in the upper house, but it’s a battle Liberals still shudder to recall.

When asked about Hargreaves on Monday, Smith said he had fielded “dozens” of letters from concerned residents regarding the bats, including from Hargreaves, who had every right to express her frustration at the colony. “She’s been here longer than the bats have,” he said.

NUMBERING UP
Melbourne’s members clubs might have temporarily shut their doors in response to the COVID-19 crisis, but that hasn’t stopped progress behind their closed doors.

The women-only Lyceum Club has appointed a new director to its board. Australian Super alternate director Anne Flanagan officially slid into her seat as a director on March 25. The UK-born chartered accountant who also serves on the board of Ai Group is best known in Collins Street circles for her near two-decade stint as the RACV’s chief financial officer. Of course, it was in that role she worked closely with Sue Blake, the RACV’s well regarded former resorts and clubs boss, who is now the Lyceum Club’s general manager.

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