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“I feel sorry for Michael,” says the earthmoving contractor, John Rodwell, about the fortunes of one of Australia’s richest people, Mike Cannon-Brookes.

He’s watched on as the billionaire has spent a million dollars or more digging a hole, and then possibly as much again, shovelling it back in.

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