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<\/p>\nMordechai Gutnick is the Rabbinic Administrator of Kosher Australia, while Rabbi Menachem Sabbach, who was involved in the raid, is the Rabbinic Co-Ordinator. Neither responded to CBD.<\/p>\n
The cafe statement also said that \u201cunfortunately in this case, there is a fair bit of politics, disagreement [and] Kosher Australia didn\u2019t play fair with us\u201d.<\/p>\n
Hours later, the statement was taken down. Watch this space.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s go clubbing<\/p>\n
Good to see Her Excellency, the Honourable Professor Margaret Gardner, out clubbing in Melbourne on Friday. Well, up to a point. The Victorian governor was a guest of honour at a black-tie gala at the Kelvin Club which, for the record, admits both male and female members \u2013 something of an anomaly in Melbourne\u2019s private members\u2019 clubland.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, The Guv was made a \u201cdistinguished honorary member\u201d of the club, where the president is Su Baker, a professor at the University of Melbourne, and the vice president is former Australian Sex Party MP Fiona Patten.<\/p>\n
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Governor Margaret Gardner attends the 160th anniversary celebration for the Kelvin Club on Friday.\u00a0
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Gardner was on hand on Friday night at an anniversary dinner to launch the official history, Tracing the Kelvin Club Story, by James Nicolas.<\/p>\n
The institution, named after scientist and inventor Lord Kelvin, started life as the Fitzroy Bowls Club and has a long history of opening its doors. In 1867, it welcomed the famous all-Aboriginal cricket team, making them honorary club members before they toured England.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, the club staged a medal ceremony for the President of Timor-Leste, Jos\u00e9 Ramos-Horta.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s festivities were supervised by club manager and secretary Miss Pearls, previously of rooftop bar Madame Brussels, who runs the club with the assistance of its mascot cavoodle, Goldie Hawn-bags.<\/p>\n
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Fiona Patten,\u00a0Wurundjeri elder\u00a0Jacqui Wandin, Governor Margaret Gardner, Kelvin Club president Su Baker and club secretary Miss Pearls at the anniversary function.Credit: Renan Goksin<\/p>\n
On the ball<\/p>\n
Federal parliament is back this week (stay with us, please), and Opposition Leader Sussan Ley is set to gain the ascendancy over Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Well, in one important aspect at least.<\/p>\n
Ley, three months into the job, is offering a mystery flight with herself as pilot as a prize in the Parliament House Press Gallery Midwinter Ball charity raffle.<\/a> In contrast with the PM\u2019s offer of, er, a game of tennis.<\/p>\n Traditionally, the quality of the leaders\u2019 speeches, where they lightly roast assorted journalists, politicians, business executives and each other, are regarded as an inside-the-beltway equivalent of the Resolve Political Monitor about a leaders\u2019 standing and reputation. Poor old Peter Dutton (remember him?) could never quite get the tone right and used to grind everyone\u2019s gears.<\/p>\n Opposition Leader Sussan Ley is offering a prize with altitude.<\/p>\n But this year, Ley\u2019s charity prize could prove more significant, offering a tinge of excitement with \u201ca flight and a lunch you\u2019ll never forget\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThe leader will take two people on a return flight from Albury or Canberra in her Cessna-182. She will fly you and your guest to a mystery location for a classic Australian pub lunch. Shearing lessons from the leader are optional, but sharing ripping yarns over a cold Australian lager is mandatory.\u201d<\/p>\n Public liability insurance presumably included.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Albanese is offering a tennis match at the Lodge, with \u201chospitality and generous refreshments assured for four people\u201d.<\/p>\n Ley\u2019s prize has thus far attracted zero bids. Late on Sunday, Bruce O\u2019Connor bid $5001, a single dollar above the reserve, for the right to play a tennis match with (or against) the PM.<\/p>\n Also still very much up for grabs is the opportunity to be the plus one of independent Senator David Pocock (despite the reserve being $3000 lower) at a dinner in November at Canberra\u2019s QT Hotel to raise funds to employ a \u201cpeople\u2019s lobbyist\u201d to \u201cadvocate on behalf of average punters for a year\u201d. Sounds like quite the night.<\/p>\n No such problems for the Qantas prize of two business class flights to either London or Los Angeles, which has attracted multiple bids and thus far stands at $11,050.<\/p>\n The ball, delayed because of the May election, will be staged in the Great Hall of Parliament House on Wednesday and is once again a sellout.<\/p>\n Wine time<\/p>\n Now that rapist former MP Gareth Ward has finally vacated his old NSW state seat of Kiama \u2013 after a brazen and unedifying court battle he embarked on after being convicted \u2013 voters on the South Coast have an opportunity to elect a new member of NSW parliament absent of any baggage and scandal.<\/p>\n Liberal candidate Serena Copley.Credit: Janie Barrett<\/p>\n For the Liberals, whom Ward represented before being banished to the cross-bench when first charged, it\u2019s a chance to win back a seat, and test the strength of Mark Speakman\u2019s anaemic leadership. A loss would only heighten the nervous chatter which has trailed the former barrister and attorney-general since day one.<\/p>\n This weekend, the party kicked off candidate Serena Copley\u2019s campaign at Coolangatta Estate Winery, a classic Shoalhaven wedding venue outside of Berry, boasting an $88 local seafood plate, with deputy leader Natalie Ward in attendance.<\/p>\n Already, that triggered grumbling about the bad optics of holding the event at a winery. Out of touch you see, especially after Speakman recently held a community cabinet event in an uber exclusive northern beaches golf club, as CBD reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n In fact, pollies are probably advised to give wineries a wide berth after some recent cursed moments. During the federal election campaign, Dutton held a widely mocked doorstop to announce funding for airport rail in Melbourne at a winery \u2026 that was nowhere near the airport. Liberals, meanwhile, point to former NSW Labor transport minister Jo Haylen\u2019s ill-fated Australia Day long lunch at a winery, to which she was escorted by a ministerial chauffeur.<\/p>\n The message to politicians is clear \u2014 stick to bowlos, or maybe an RSL club-cum-pokie den, the type of venue where nobody can question your battler bona fides.<\/p>\n![\"Opposition](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/db13e876b16ae047e4c51c4b67056b17d5c7789a.jpeg\")
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