New name, more change: Seven bids farewell to another senior executive
The merger of Southern Cross and Seven earlier this year has already seen a wave of executive exits. Earlier this month, it said goodbye to yet another.
Wine has been at the centre of a number of NSW political scandals over the years. There was the infamous undeclared $3000 bottle of 1959 Penfolds Grange Hermitage that cost former Liberal premier Barry O’Farrell his job back in 2014.
More recently, Summer Hill MP Jo Haylen resigned as transport minister in February last year on the heels of a scandal triggered by her taxpayer-funded driver use. That one, regular readers may recall, involved an Australia Day weekend lunch at a Hunter Valley winery.
So imagine our surprise to see NSW Premier Chris Minns’ recent pecuniary interests disclosures still dotted with wine-adjacent gifts. (And that’s before we even get to the fact that the premier hasn’t had a drink in years.)
Among the more amusing donors on the register was News24, which caught our eye because the network was among those that covered his sobriety as far back as 2023. In that case, the bottle of wine was surrendered to the state, which we’re told has become predictably common in the post-O’Farrell years.
