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The walls of the Melbourne headquarters of
Equity Trustees (EQT) are adorned with the portraits of former
prime ministers, premiers and governors-general who have served on the board of
the stately 133 year old institution.
The roll call of dignitaries includes 19
th century
premier Sir Charles Sladen, prime ministers Stanley Bruce and Robert Menzies
and former governor general Ninian Stephen.
In Marc,h former Abbott/Turnbull era Cabinet minister Kelly
O’Dwyer joined the board, filling a seat vacated by former Victorian premier
and Hawthorn Football Club president Jeff Kennett. (Kennett’s great
grandfather, Edward Fanning was a director for 30 years from 1888 to 1917).
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âWe want to have a momentum in our lives,â he says, âand I love hearing the musicians when they speak of transience in their lives because I think we need to talk about the evanescence of things too. As we found ourselves locked down, we talked about the project of this album. Then I started my own journey within this, because thatâs what collaboration creates: a kind of drive to look in and out, and that became my book: A Whole New Plan for Living.
âIt seemed absolutely natural to me that this whole new exciting venture would become the outcome of that plan,â Lucey continues. âWe talked about what it is to be individual, what it is to be authentic, to be hopeful, to be political, and I found myself allowing the experience of collaboration to take me from consciousness, and the volatility, complexity and uncertainty in so many parts of our lives, to this point where each of us has revealed themselves to each other, in lots of very interesting way
Micheál Martin has defended taking part in an event at a Cork boxing club last December when public health restrictions prohibited indoor gatherings.
The Taoiseach s spokesman said that the event at Blackpool s Glen Boxing Club last December 12 was work, and not a personal event .
Mr Martin presented the Paddy Martin Cup, named after his father, who was a champion boxer, to Irish international boxer and garda Christina Desmond at the event, which was attended by at least 12 people.
The State was in Level 3 Covid-19 restrictions at the time, meaning indoor gatherings were prohibited. Gardaí said they are not investigating the event.
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