Ahead of Peter Dutton’s savage speech at the Liberals’ 80th federal council, the party’s top figures gathered in for an evening of factional festivities.
The night before Dutton’s rush of blood, Liberals were in a festive mood. The party’s good and great gathered at Sydney’s Hyatt Regency for a special gala dinner.was once again wheeled out to gee-up the troops as they busied themselves on marinated eye fillet and a patriotic dessert menu of raspberry lamingtons, ANZAC crumble and our favourite, cherry ripe cheesecake.
As for why the dinner is called the Black Hand, that dates back to the 1980s, when Brandis and a few fellow moderates decided to name their “subversive” factional gathering after the Serbian secret society responsible for assassinating Archduke, one of the co-founders and co-CEO of Splendour in the Grass, from the music festival’s Live Nation-backed parent company Secret Sounds it came as both a shock, and little surprise.
Still, the official statement painted this as a bloodless coup, with Ducrou “announcing” her own departure.
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