He was the colt from Kooyong when he assumed the seat from Sir Robert Menzies. He was the Sunlamp Kid for his permanent tan, and a playboy demeanour feathered by romances, real or reported, with glamorous women. It was said Peacock changed suits several times a day and used a Gucci toothbrush. He lived in Monomeath Avenue, Canterbury, one of Melbourne s wealthiest streets. His surname, both of title and background, presented easy conclusions. His political career was not of what happened so much as what could have happened. The big ones didn t fall his way as they might have. He was like a colt who couldn t find the line.
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Lex Greensill, Sanjeev Gupta, whoâd have guessed!
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Quite easily the most remarkable part of Greensill Capitalâs collapse is that it took this long. For years
Lex Greensill was warmly lit by newspaper profiles depicting the boy from Bundaberg ingeniously subverting the gravity of supply chain finance. It somehow failed to register that Babylonian traders used invoice factoring before Hammurabi had even built the walls around them.
Besides its spurious exceptionalism, the most suspect element of Greensill Capital was its entwinement with
Sanjeev Guptaâs equally irregular empire. It always looked like Greensill was assuming an extraordinary level of risk as primary lender â in effect â to a roll-up of industrial junk assets.