The future’s so bright we are gonna need shades. Guthrie has just become chair of Melbourne’s “revolutionary travel platform” TRAVLR, which allows media companies to offer customers travel booking services within their own brand. Or he could follow Michelle Guthrie, the former crazy-brave ABC managing director whose era Morris survived. Morris said he doesn’t want a big job, so it looks like consultancy land for him. Recruitment ads for his replacement have already appeared. He awarded a bonus if the question was provocative enough to land a mention in The Australian’s ABC-obsessed media section. Morris bought a table for young ABC reporters and challenged them to ask him anything. At least you can come off saying, ‘I did this.’ ” The quote Holmes a Court used to urge on the crowd was: “At least do something. But not JFK, rather Hawthorn coach John Kennedy at the famous 1975 VFL grand final. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”īut O’Brien ran a million miles when Holmes a Court asked him if the technique was used by Prime Minister Scott Morrison.Ī political gathering of independents cannot end without a Kennedy quotation. He said the decline of democracy went hand in hand with the media and referenced Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s philosophy of media control: “The real opposition is the media. O’Brien was incredibly erudite but seemed uncomfortable at such a political gathering. The ringmaster at this week’s event was green energy investor and Hawthorn resident Simon Holmes a Court, who founded the Climate 200 political donation machine. And now Mirabella’s husband, Greg, is the new Liberal senator for Victoria.