GQ Australia - 08.2018

Greg Hunt

Health is his power play

–aportfoliothatmeans

exposure and which suits

hisbluntmanner,which

landed him in hot water

recently when addressing

the mayor of Katherine.

Leigh Sales

The PM may call her

“negative”,wepreferto

call her the Queen. Set

‘emup–knock‘emdown.

Cut the crap, unravel the

spin. There’s artistry in

what Sales and her7. 3 0

team does at times. Equally

well supported by Aunty’s

otherpowerplayersin

Michelle Guthrie, Barrie

Cassidy, Tony Jones and

brilliant new addition,

Laura Tingle.

David Gonski

His name is

etched into the

contemporar

frontal cortex

for educational

reform – thou h

Gonski is also

a businessman of

repute and power

in his own ri ht.

Also a nei hbour

of Bi Mal.

Hui Wing Mau

Australia’s richest

Chinese-born citizen

• a Hong Kong-based
  property tycoon and
  rich-lister worth a lazy
  $11.6bn. Mau holds
  Australian citizenship
  after studying for an
  MBA at the University
  of South Australia (via
  long-distance learning,
  of course) in the 1990s.
  He claims extensive rural
  investments in Australia,
  moves with political elites
  in China and is known
  to have been a Labor
  Party donor.

Christopher Pyne

Remember, he’s

‘the fixer’. OK, a self-

appointed one but

Pyne’s also a career

politician – he knows how

to run with the big boys

and get what he wants,

even when breaking party

line on marriage equality.

He wields his power, for

now, via the defense

industry and as house

leader – a charismatic

player well versed in the

further influence that

can come from being

media savvy.

Alan Joyce
When you run the country’s chosen airline, you fly with
a select few and have a hold on the government’s ear.
Pull it, occasionally, when things aren’t so rosy – say, for
example, when an ABC economics reporter attacks the
case for corporate tax cuts. Pull it, again, to make sure the
argument for marriage equality is being heard. Joyce is
shrewd and powerful – upheld by key staffer and counsel
Olivia Wirth, wife of former union boss Paul Howes.
Between the three, they hold an intricate knowledge of
the big end of town and both sides of politics all powerful.

Andrew

‘Twiggy’

Forrest

The Fortescue Metals

magnate and parochial

West Aussie is estimated to

be worth north of $5bn.

Last year’s philanthropic

donation of $400m – to be

used across a number of

causes and the largest

single donation of its kind

in this country – was

welcomed at a backslapping

photo opp led by the PM.

As you do.

Peter

Dutton

An out-and-proud

Tu r n b u l l s u p p o r t e r

• even as the

igurehead of the

Libs’ conservative

wing and a onetime

diehard Abbott fan.

Dutton’s now the

owner of a super-

portfolio – one that

shouts its power and

credentials on each

utterance: ‘Minister

for Home Affairs and

Immigration and

Border Protection’.

Dutton is blunt,

principled as he sees

it, and couldn’t care

less what others

think of him.

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