Cooper CronkCredit:John Shakespeare
He’s since done the most Sydney thing possible:he’s got involved in a neighbourly dispute over a home renovation. In April,one of Cronk’s neighbours lodged plans with Mosman Council for a $3.7 million upgrade of their home,including a new pool and outdoor deck.
Cronk penned one of just two submissions made in response to the development application,noting the privacy impacts of the plans. Cronk and Rushton were also concerned that the renovations next door could disrupt their electricity supply.
“My wife and I both work from home to non-negotiable deadlines and we need our power to be available,” the former star wrote. Given the two are both TV regulars on Fox Sports and Ten,that was news to us.
Cronk’s submission was considered and coherent;you would never know he has a few decades of head knocks behind him. But it turns out the former halfback is making a few moves in the real estate game,listing a strategic adviser job at Brisbane-based property investment firm Marquette on his LinkedIn. How many ex-NRL players even have a LinkedIn?
Not that it mattered to the council,who approved the offending development last week.
REAL FRIENDS
Arch-republicanSam Mostynwas sworn in as governor-general on Monday,and used her first address in the Senate as his majesty’s representative to urge the gathered politicians to please be a bit nicer to each other.
Newly sober former deputy prime ministerBarnaby Joyceseemed to have taken that to heart,and was snapped shaking hands with ex-prime ministerMalcolm Turnbull,all bitterness around the 2018 bonk ban apparently forgiven. Opposition LeaderPeter Duttonless so – he looked thunderous about being seated a few metres from Turnbull.
Mostyn brought in a few better-behaved friends from outside the Canberra bubble,including former High Court justiceMichael Kirby(Mostyn worked for him),ABC chairKim Williamsand his wifeCatherine Dovey(daughter of former prime minister Gough Whitlam),celebrity chefKylie Kwong and National Gallery of Australia board member and APY Art Centre Collective artistSally Scales.
The new-guard executive-feminist activist vibe was supplied byAnne Summers,AuntyPat Anderson,Wendy McCarthy,Elizabeth Broderick,The Parenthood activistGeorgie Dent,Vanessa Liell from strategic comms firm Orizontas,andRonni Kahn from OzHarvest.
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