Mornington Yacht Club sailors complain over lewd boat names, Barack Obama visits Australia for speaking tour

JUST THE TICKET

When we brought term in November that former US president Barack Obama was coming to town for a couple of talking engagements, we believed the gatherings would be sellouts, not the very least because former key minister Julia Gillard’s clearly show at Hamer Hall the past month bought out in minutes.

Back again then, it seemed like progressive former national leaders have been a sure-hearth hit for occasion promoters. Now, we’re not so certain.

For Obama, it seems like a tale of two metropolitan areas, with lots of tickets still left for Wednesday night’s clearly show MC’d by previous foreign minister Julie Bishop at John Cain Arena, and you can continue to get in for $195. Factors are a small tighter for Tuesday night’s show in Sydney, where by there had been nonetheless plenty of places offered when we seemed on Monday but mainly at the pricier stop of the home, costing upwards of $345.

We questioned the show’s publicists how they thought issues ended up likely. We have not read back again.

STRIFE’S Get the job done

Women’s media entrepreneur Mia Freedman is to get the tiny-screen treatment, with Foxtel-owned streaming provider Binge turning her 2017 memoir into an Asher Keddie-led show termed Strife.

Freedman is a co-govt producer on the challenge, which began filming this week, together with Keddie, and Steve Hutensky, a previous amusement lawyer who assisted Harvey Weinstein secure mystery settlements with ladies Weinstein experienced allegedly sexually harassed.

Hutensky is co-founder and chief working officer of manufacturing corporation Produced Up Stories, along with his spouse, Bruna Papandrea, (also making Strife). The corporation prides itself on creating stories with “intelligent, multifaceted female characters,” and is the recipient of thousands and thousands in Monitor Australia grants.

But in a past daily life, Hutensky spent many years as a attorney for Weinstein’s production residence, Miramax, with his function for the disgraced producer earning him the nickname “the cleaner-upper”. Although Hutensky’s do the job with Weinstein was very well-documented in American reporting, it’s almost never mentioned in a domestic film business the place Built Up Tales is a significant participant.

Though we’re not suggesting he was concerned in any unlawful functions, or understood the extent of the allegations towards Weinstein (who is now sentenced to 39 a long time in jail for sexual assault), the whole relationship just does not sit perfectly with Freedman’s pop feminist model.

Neither Hutensky nor Freedman responded to CBD’s comment requests.

Get together TIME

The non-expulsion of hardline conservative point out Liberal MP Moira Deeming was pretty substantially the only detail any one desired to communicate about in condition politics this past 7 days, but cost-free speech, unfastened lips and linked issues are normally tricky subjects in bash circles.

Some attendees at Friday night’s Liberal point out assembly, a common conference of delegates to talk about social gathering matters, have been remaining griping that the get together of no cost speech had strayed a small significantly from its concepts when state department president Greg Mirabella – allegedly – “gagged” dialogue of the Deeming brouhaha, making use of official disallowance powers.

But that wasn’t the recollection of absolutely everyone in the space. CBD has been told, by a person who should to know, that Mirabella simply just addressed the “the elephant in the room” just before the conference bought less than way and recommended, to common arrangement, that with a byelection to gain this Saturday in Alan Tudge’s vacated seat of Aston, the assembly might be intelligent to kick the Deeming concern down the street for a pair of months.

Turned out the Liberals’ parliamentary crew was wondering together the same lines with its determination to suspend the Western Metro MLA instead than concur to leader John Pesutto’s wish of turfing her from the occasion room entirely.

Excellent minds and all that.

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