Sydney’s elite gather at Le Manoir for News Corp’s summer party
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All eyes will be on Sydney’s harborside mansion in the first week of December.
For creatures of various political, business, media, cultural and sporting communities, there can be no greater thrill than receiving an invitation to the summer’s signature power party.
The Last King of News Corp royalty every year Lachlan Murdoch and his wife Epilepsy Open the doors to their award-winning mansion in Bellevue Hill Le Manoir to the crowd of the nation.
Unfortunately, your columnists’ invitations have been lost in cyberspace (or possibly blocked by our email servers), leaving us to file this post from the gutter on Bellevue Hill on Thursday evening as the glitterati greedily sneak in.
Last year, a newly married young man Rupert Murdoch appeared; This year we’ve had to make do with rumors of News Corp’s global boss Robert Thomson (a former journalist Sydney Morning Herald, It was Down Under who shared a birthday with the great man.
One of Lachlan’s closest confidants Siobhan McKenna It left orbit last month after two decades in the empire. But that didn’t stop him from being the first to arrive at the summer party at 16.58!
He was quickly followed by a flurry of News Corp personalities. Kieran Gilbert, Sharri Markson And Andrew BoltLoitering along the street to ask what we were doing in Sydney.
CBD last saw Murdoch celebrating the Brisbane Broncos’ stunning grand final victory in October. Representatives of the football club he owns were also ready to host. Ram Michael McGuire in a suitcase on wheels, on a five-eighths row Ben Hunt. Also there was the NRL’s chief executive Andrew Abdo.
Kellie Sloane She’s been the Liberal leader in NSW for about five minutes and is already getting good invites, appearing alongside her husband Adam Connolly
Leader of the Federal Opposition Susan Ley He followed shortly after by getting into the front seat of his Comcar, which is a power move we guess.
The neighbor’s garage door opened to reveal two women.
“We are neighbors. We go to the Mayor’s party, it’s always the same night. They don’t invite us to it,” said one.
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Kishor Napier-Raman is the CBD columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He was previously at Crikey as a reporter covering federal politics in the Canberra Press Gallery.Connect with: excitement or email.
Stephen Brook is a special correspondent for The Age and a CBD columnist for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. He was previously deputy editor of The Sunday Age. He is the former media editor of The Australian and spent six years working for The Guardian in London.Connect with: excitement or email.
