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A painting of former MP Jason Falinski is passed down to each NSW Young Liberal president.Credit: Instagram.

Gannon was officially presented with the distinctive portrait of former Mackellar MP Jason Falinski, which is passed on to each new president as is NSW Young Liberal tradition.

Gannon’s predecessor, Georgia Lowden, wrote a stinging submission to the Liberal Party’s post-election struggle session, which wisely urged the party to give Sky News’ after-dark programming – where Peter Dutton spent far too long hiding from normal voters – a wide berth.

In return, some Sky News pundits such as Rowan Dean and Rita Panahi called the Young Libs “beta males and pathetic women”, which is all very classy.

But we’re sure the Young Liberals will get a better hearing on Leach’s new show, Freya Fires Up. The Murdoch-owned network, which broadcasts its after-dark offerings to about 15 very cranky geriatrics, is no doubt thrilled to have found another youthful voice to match the rizz of Caleb Bond, who broadcasts after Leach on Sunday night.

Stamping his authority

Terence Stamp, the British actor who starred as trans woman Bernadette in the hit film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, died at the weekend at the venerable age of 87, but he might still make another mark in Australian film.

Terence Stamp (centre) with Guy Pearce (left) and Hugo Weaving in The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert.

Terence Stamp (centre) with Guy Pearce (left) and Hugo Weaving in The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert.Credit: Elise Lockwood, National Film and Sound Archive

Writer-director Stephan Elliott, who announced last year that he planned to make a sequel, took precautions given Stamp’s ill-health meant he might not be able to join co-stars Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving on set when the film is funded.

“They took him into a studio and had him shot from every angle digitally,” Priscilla’s Oscar-winning costume designer Tim Chappel told Herald film writer Garry Maddox this year. “He’s given permission that, if for some reason he doesn’t make it, he can still be in the film.”

Chappel said “a lot of the sequel is seen through Bernadette’s eyes, and she’s got early stages of dementia. But the happy dementia.” The bawdy tagline is “even old showgirls deserve a happy ending”.

Bill’s back

Former BRW Rich Lister, former bankrupt and former associate of Kerry PackerBill Ireland has been there, done that.

The irrepressible Ireland, now 75, is back raising money and says he has “a lot of energy left”.

A long time ago, in 2011, a debt-laden Ireland vowed to go into retirement and “sail a boat around the world”.

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CBD can reveal that Ireland is raising money for his six-month-old AI-backed financial services business, which all sounds very zeitgeisty.

Ireland tells CBD his fledgling business, Equity Risk Exchange, is looking for $2 million as part of its first capital raising.

“There’s some private family money,” he says, declining to name names. “I’m not interested in listing it for a while.”

Ireland made his name by founding financial services business Challenger in the 1980s and soon landed on BRW’s Rich List worth an estimated $127 million. But he was booted out by the Packers after the business drew the attention of regulator APRA.

He then set up the Mariner Financial group, which went to ground in the wash-up of the GFC.

Ireland says he’s founded quite a few businesses. “Some were more successful than others.”

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