the Gina, the glitz and the Boris Johnson

This morning we’ve been handled to The Australian Monetary Evaluate‘s protection of its personal annual Enterprise Individual of the 12 months awards, which “recognises Australia’s high leaders, builders, pioneers and CEOs”. The factors look like “already be stonkingly wealthy and getting richer”, as evidenced by the winner: low-profile philanthropist and WA’s Individual of the 12 months, Gina Rinehart. In keeping with the Fin, the checklist of nominees

demonstrates how entrepreneurial mavericks have been capable of experience a few of the huge themes within the world economic system: the important minerals race, the power transition, and the ever-increasing use of knowledge in a world that will probably be more and more powered by synthetic intelligence.

A worldwide economic system dominated by billionaires greedy for ever-larger shares of our consideration and knowledge to feed more and more highly effective synthetic intelligence? What might presumably go mistaken?

Among the many glamorous photographs of the night, we see the cream of enterprise and political figures — and likewise Boris Johnson. We get why it could be awkward for 9 chairman Peter Costello to not invite former high-ranking Liberals comparable to Josh Frydenberg and Julie Bishop, however what the hell was the disgraced former UK PM doing there?

What insights was Johnson there to supply? To display by way of his time in authorities — the relentless calamity of which, following a landslide victory in 2019, continues to publicly develop and develop — how one can trash a profitable model? To offer AFR journos inspiration with the litany of fabricated tales he produced pre-politics? What potential purpose might there be to proceed our nationwide pastime of convincing him he’s nonetheless related?

The opposite lesson of the awards is an easy and sobering one: regardless of how profitable you get, you’ll be able to’t escape the rendering of David Rowe: