$50,000 after legal fees<\/a>.<\/p>\nD\u2019Alpuget once admitted Hawke\u2019s children initially rejected her when she and Hawke went public with their relationship in 1995, some 20 years after the lovers first took up together in 1976, when both were married to other people and he was president of the ACTU.<\/p>\n
Hawke wouldn\u2019t divorce first wife Hazel until his prime ministerial career was over in 1994. He married d\u2019Alpuget the following year.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the sentiment expressed in the envelope was also on behalf of older sister Ms Pieters-Hawke?<\/p>\n
She also had some memorable run-ins with her stepmother.<\/p>\n
The most public of these occurred in the Qantas Chairman\u2019s Lounge at Brisbane Airport in 2011 when d\u2019Alpuget, having partaken in a few afternoon beverages, lunged at her stepdaughter when Ms Pieters-Hawke approached her.<\/p>\n
Ms Pieters-Hawke was, at the time, writing her mother Hazel Hawke\u2019s biography.<\/p>\n
In her biography, Ms Pieters-Hawke gave her mother, who died two years later in 2013, the right-of-reply concerning assertions d\u2019Alpuget made in her book, Hawke: The Prime Minister.<\/p>\n
Ms Pieters-Hawke insisted some of d\u2019Alpuget\u2019s interpretations of her mother were \u201cwrong\u201d and \u201cinaccurate\u201d.<\/p>\n
Despite the hostilities, Hawke\u2019s eldest daughter and d\u2019Alpuget later apparently resolved their issues, with Ms Pieters-Hawke crediting her stepmother with being an attentive grandparent to her children. <\/p>\n
Stanton takes a break following Nine\u2019s publishing brouhaha<\/p>\n
Who took charge of the mop up after all hell broke loose at Nine\u2019s business title, the Australian Financial Review, over the departure of editor-in-chief James Chessell and the poaching of editorial business editor Nick Bonyhady?<\/p>\n
It seems the task was left largely to the woman implicated directly in the mess, publishing director Tory Maguire \u2013 the same Nine executive who signed off on the media company\u2019s foundational support of boutique publisher Rampart, the start-up and rival that ultimately conducted the raid on Nine\u2019s publishing division.<\/p>\n
But then, who else was going to do the job, with Nine CEO Matt Stanton heading off on leave after Nine\u2019s director of streaming and broadcast Amanda Laing announced she was departing \u2013 the lawyer many saw as his eventual successor?<\/p>\n
Also on leave that week was Stanton\u2019s other close report, Nine head of strategy David Ash, who, we were assured yesterday, has since returned to his post.<\/p>\n
For surely Stanton wouldn\u2019t leave Maguire solely in charge of such a sensitive clean-up operation?<\/p>\n
Apparently he would, though he may have had some initial concerns. At least that\u2019s how his decision to sign off to staff via an internal webcast on Tuesday, September 29, was perceived by outraged journos within Nine\u2019s publishing division.<\/p>\n
In a bright tone, Stanton informed his staff he was headed off to the UK to see his elderly parents. Some hint he also had a wedding to attend.<\/p>\n
Nine insiders maintain Stanton, like his predecessor Mike Sneesby, is \u201cfrightened\u201d of Nine\u2019s publishing division and continues to let it run independently of Nine\u2019s broadcast operations \u2013 this despite broadcasting bringing in more revenue.<\/p>\n
All of which might go some way to helping explain why Nine\u2019s interventionary chairman Peter Tonagh has become more hands on of late.<\/p>\n
Any exchanges Tonagh might have had with Maguire in the hope of settling outraged troops in her publishing division would also have provided him with an opportunity to observe, at close range, the operational style of the woman who would be Nine\u2019s next \u2013 and first female \u2013 CEO.<\/p>\n
This column is sure Maguire must have been mightily relieved when her only female rival for the job, Laing, was taken out of play last month and handed a redundancy.<\/p>\n
MacDonald\u2019s classy return to the ABC<\/p>\n
Two years after being controversially axed to clear a space in the ABC\u2019s on-air schedule for ABC chairman Kim Williams\u2019 favourite Hamish Macdonald, popular Sydney radio commentator Sarah Macdonald will return to the airwaves at ABC 702 in 2027.<\/p>\n
The announcement has to have been particularly sweet for Macdonald, whose audience protested vigorously in the months after ABC head of audio Ben Latimer made the cut by bombarding the ABC with complaints and switching off their radios.<\/p>\n
The broadcaster was all class at the time, as she was again this week when news of her return, to James Valentine\u2019s afternoon shift, broke, though it was hard to miss her pointed shout-out to the station\u2019s \u201cbrilliant new station manager\u201d Nick Lowther.<\/p>\n
There was no shout-out for the ABC\u2019s head of audio Ben Latimer, who must be under considerable pressure at the broadcaster given the station\u2019s continued ratings slump, which is in line with a worrying decline at ABC Melbourne which plummeted to a 4.1 share earlier this year.<\/p>\n
The news was equally bad at chairman Williams\u2019 favourite station Radio National, which reportedly fell to its second worst result of all time in the latest survey, while there wasn\u2019t much to celebrate at youth broadcaster Triple J either.<\/p>\n
Could it be time for Latimer to move on and make way for someone who can help re-engage with the broadcaster\u2019s audience? 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