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Collingwood president Mark Korda (Image: AAP/Scott Barbour)
Eddie McGuire and lawyer-turned-corporate-heavyweight Jeffrey Browne have been great mates for 30 years. They re both Collingwood nuts and Browne used to help manage McGuire, negotiating some of his early media contracts. They are so close that Browne is godfather to one of Eddie’s sons.
So it is passing strange that Browne is suddenly running an intense media campaign to pressure Mark Korda to hand over the Collingwood presidency just weeks after Australia’s leading insolvency figure replaced McGuire in the top job.
From a governance point of view, Korda is not a long-term solution for Collingwood given that he has been on the board for 14 years, although McGuire did rule the roost for 23 years. However, Browne is certainly not a good short-term solution if the game plan is to close the book on the rollercoaster McGuire era.
As debate rages over whether Nathan Buckley is the right person to lead Collingwood in the future, Pie great Tony Shaw says it’s time to put the brakes on.
Each level-crossing removal in Melbourne has unique challenges and opportunities.
The Bell-to-Moreland project on the Upfield line, for example, involves removing four level crossings and building two new train stations. To remove the crossings, the rail has been elevated to create “sky rail” over a 3km stretch.
The land below can then be re-purposed for linear parks, recreation and active transport such as walking and cycling.
While the government emphasises such uses, these appear to be incidental reasons for the project. “Level-crossing removal” rather than, say, “rail upgrade” or “linear park project”, suggests its main purpose is to ease traffic congestion.
The media was again incredibly frustrating at the 4pm covid update yesterday, and in this mornings Herald.
Having Audrey Young doing a grumpy old woman routine asking the same gotcha question a million times ( why are we not told these business now? , and the switcheroo why were this businesses blindsided by releasing their information before informing them? ) was bad enough but her personal annoyance has become the subject of her piece this morning in the paper, where for some vague reason the PM needs to be involved to rev up the MOH over some quibble that Audrey doesn t like.
What is frustrating is ONE WHOLE YEAR after the COVID pandemic began the main media companies are STILL treating the pandemic as primarily a POLITICAL story, using courtier journalists who were excoriated by the public for their addiction to the gotcha dialogue of banter politics and viewing everything through the lens of horse race political analysis. Why was Audrey Young there? Why has the NZ Herald stil