Perry packing containers intelligent on whirlwind journey

“It’s extremely disappointing given she’s the applicant,” Taylor stated of Perry’s no-show. She vowed to proceed her David v Goliath authorized battle with Perry for the nice of all small companies.

SHORT-SIGHTED

Indonesia’s presumptive subsequent president Prabowo Subianto’s human rights file is, nicely, patchy at greatest.

The previous normal headed a unit allegedly concerned in torture and abductions throughout the last days of dictator Suharto’s regime within the Nineteen Nineties.

However Prabowo, who’s at the moment the nation’s defence minister, has efficiently rebranded as a form of cuddly grandpa to the nation, and received a possible landslide at this month’s presidential elections, in response to early preliminary outcomes.

At a gathering on the weekend together with his Australian counterpart, Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, in Jakarta, Prabowo promised Canberra needn’t worry “too many surprises” from his presidency.

However Marles did get a shock that very day, when Prabowo eagerly offered him with a rifle as an official present.

Now, it’s customary for visiting dignitaries to change all method of little nicknacks, however a present of a capturing iron from a army strongman who was banned from coming into the US for many years over these alleged human rights abuses – we’re undecided how Richard should be feeling about that.

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Marles doesn’t have a gun licence, and even deputy prime ministers battle to import firearms into Australia, so Prabowo’s rifle is unfortunately nonetheless in Jakarta.

We reckon he ought to follow the fail-safe choice of golf golf equipment subsequent time he meets Marles.

FAST FASHION

We introduced phrase a number of weeks again of a outstanding public sale – the sale of practically 400 gadgets of high-end vogue, paintings and different fine details that after belonged to the late conwoman Melissa Caddick.

The stuff included clothes by Dior, Chanel, Gucci, Diane von Furstenberg, Herve Leger, Oscar de la Renta, in addition to purses by Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Loro Piana, and sneakers by Chanel and Hermes.

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The upmarket clobber was being flogged off by Sydney public sale home Shapiro’s, appearing on behalf of Caddick property receivers Jones Companions, who proceed their work making an attempt to recuperate as a lot as attainable of the $30 million Caddick is believed to have fleeced from purchasers of her dodgy funding schemes earlier than her mysterious disappearance in 2020.

Seems that the promised bargains – all of them – had been too good to withstand. Jones Companions advised us on Monday that Shapiro’s had bought the lot, elevating about $70,000, with Jones Companions’ Bruce Gleeson very pleased with the consequence.

“Each clothes and paintings classes fetched quantities nicely in extra of the reserves and have netted an quantity of circa $70,000,” Gleeson stated.

SYLVANIA SUNSET

As soon as the “Messiah from the Shire”, former prime minister Scott Morrison’s inventory amongst his Liberal Celebration colleagues has taken a dive in recent times.

However for the few Liberals nonetheless keen to half with $200 to spend a night with Morrison – as he prepares to depart from his southern Sydney citizens of Cook dinner – invites are circulating for an occasion titled ScoMo’s Farewell Dinner within the Shire, in Sylvania Waters, within the coronary heart of the citizens, subsequent month.

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Visitor MC duties will fall to a real blue loyalist – Sky Information host Paul Murray, little question hoping to reprise that fawning 2019 “interview” with former US president Donald Trump.

There’s even a particular electronic mail to gather RSVPs, with the suffix @Scomo30.com. CBD can’t wait to see whether or not any of Morrison’s former colleagues present up.

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