The dramatic press release, broken friendship and Luxe Listings drama

Kennedy and his team declined to comment. Loading But the press release actually references a NSW Supreme Court judgment from April 23, so it’s a little on the tardy side. The latest court judgment related to an application by Kentel to discontinue the proceedings on March 26. Kennedy quit Kentel months ago, but they appointed two new directors who tipped the whole joint into administration on March 27.

Justice Peter Brereton dismissed the application to discontinue but noted he was not compelling Kentel to prosecute their civil claim “if it does not wish to do so”. Rather it was “a matter for the administrators” who are now responsible for the affairs of the company, including whether to continue with any legal claims. “Mr Scott may have an interest in any such application. In any event, it is a matter for the parties to chart their course,” he said. So, there’s bound to be more. Not the least of which is that Kennedy himself has filed a personal motion for a summary dismissal against his former mate Scott, but that is yet to come before the court. There’s a TV show in this drama somewhere. Thanks for all the laughs On Friday night, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese gave a video address aimed at an audience of one: this column’s former cartoonist-in-residence, John Shakespeare.

Shakes, as he is widely known, left the Herald last August after 39 years and is now seriously ill with cancer, and Albo sent a tribute filmed at The Lodge to a gathering of 200 journalists from across four decades who attended a tribute night on Friday at the Shelbourne Hotel with Shakes and his wife Anna-Lisa Backlund. “Pride of place in my personal office here is this wonderful Shakespeare depiction of myself and Toto the wonder dog,” Albanese said in the video. One of our favourites: John Shakespeare captures the happy moment when Anthony Albanese proposed to Jodie Haydon. Credit: John Shakespeare “One of the things that really characterises all of your remarkable work is that you can be incisive without being cutting. “Your cartoons are generous and show people’s character without their downside that some cartoonists sometimes display. And that says a lot about the nature of your spirit.”

The prime minister’s tribute was one of several from around the world. For these columnists, no matter how far south our day was heading, our daily phone briefing with Shakes brought good times – as he quietly fizzed with ideas about that day’s newsmakers. Then, in an impossibly short time, there appeared a pocket masterpiece of wry commentary to gladden the news cycle. John was adored by us, by our readers, and more often than not, by the subjects of his gentle pen, who would ring us and say, “How can I buy that cartoon of me?” The Herald’s 2022 intake of trainee journalists surprise John Shakespeare with T-shirts printed with his depictions of them. Credit: Steven Siewert

Kooyong board member’s lightning comeback The Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club came through the drama of its annual general meeting last December into a period of relative calm. For those who came late, the club still known as the “spiritual home of Australian tennis”, after hosting the Australian Open for most of the 1970s and 1980s, was forced to call in external auditors over a $2.4 million “accounting loss” from its dining and functions operations. That’s a mountain of wagyu beef. As we reported, external auditors blamed poor financial management and reporting, and the club said there was no evidence of criminal activity. Various officials departed. Steve Wood, the respected former chief executive of Tennis Australia, was elected unopposed as the new president in December. He appointed experienced sports administrator Ian Robson as chief executive. Robson had run Melbourne Victory, Rowing Australia and the Essendon Football Club when it was engulfed in the 2012 supplements scandal.

The pair then settled in for a long five-setter to get the club back on track. Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club is attempting to put a rough patch behind it. Credit: The Age On April 30, Sarah Sheer – a board member during the wagyu-gate saga – resigned, effective immediately. But faster than a Novak Djokovic first serve, by May 2 she was back. Wood shared the happy news that Sheer had been appointed the club’s new marketing and communications manager, following a “rigorous recruitment process” led by Robson and people and culture manager Jo Westover.

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