Pittwater Life May 2024 Issue
POLICE TARGET E-BIKES PARENTS SLAM GOVT’S ‘SHAMEFUL’ SCHOOL FUNDING CUTS COUNCIL IN $255M HOLE / GREG COMBET & JUANITA PHILLIPS THE WAY WE WERE / GARDENING / SEEN... HEARD... ABSURD...
POLICE TARGET E-BIKES
PARENTS SLAM GOVT’S ‘SHAMEFUL’ SCHOOL FUNDING CUTS
COUNCIL IN $255M HOLE / GREG COMBET & JUANITA PHILLIPS
THE WAY WE WERE / GARDENING / SEEN... HEARD... ABSURD...
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<strong>Life</strong> Stories<br />
PASSION: Combet<br />
designed his aviary<br />
himself. It houses 16<br />
magnificent finches.<br />
Continued from page 33<br />
embark on his post-politics<br />
career, with frequent trips<br />
to Melbourne to see his<br />
daughter Anna, now 33, and<br />
his two other step-children<br />
Clara and Yannis.<br />
His main role since leaving<br />
parliament has been as chair<br />
of IFM Investors, a global<br />
funds management company<br />
investing money on behalf<br />
of industry super fund<br />
members.<br />
But his reputation as an<br />
ideology-free fixer has led to<br />
numerous other adventures<br />
– including an extraordinary<br />
phone call from Scott<br />
Morrison during the early<br />
months of COVID-19 when<br />
the economic consequences<br />
facing Australia and the<br />
world became obvious.<br />
“I’d entered parliament<br />
at the same time as Scott<br />
Morrison in 2007 so we knew<br />
each other across the aisle,”<br />
he points out. Unemployment<br />
looked like falling off a<br />
cliff. According to one press<br />
report, then treasurer Josh<br />
Frydenberg told the Prime<br />
Minister: “We need Greg<br />
Combet on this.” To which<br />
Morrison apparently replied: “I<br />
Continued on page 36<br />
34 MAY <strong>2024</strong><br />
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