{"id":53610,"date":"2026-07-19T08:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/53610\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T08:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T08:06:17","slug":"jeff-bezos-sydney-visit-amazon-founder-slips-into-park-hyatt-bar-for-a-negroni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/53610\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos Sydney visit: Amazon founder slips into Park Hyatt bar for a negroni"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opinion<\/p>\n

\"JohnJohn Buckley<\/a>CBD columnist<\/p>\n

Updated July 19, 2026 \u2014 5:19pm,first published 4:45pm<\/p>\n

Updated July 19, 2026 \u2014 5:19pm,first published 4:45pm<\/p>\n

Save<\/p>\n

You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n

Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n

AAA<\/p>\n

Jeff Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sanchez, are in Sydney. For which purpose, we don\u2019t know. But if nothing else, how the world\u2019s fourth-richest man chooses to spend his time in the Emerald City has made for some good gawking.<\/p>\n

After being spotted on Friday out for lunch at Mimi\u2019s, the beige upmarket eatery in Coogee, Bezos was spotted that evening slipping into the Park Hyatt bar, where he was reliably photographed by a CBD spy with what appeared to be a negroni. Bezos, clad in black with Cuban-heeled boots, was in the company of an unshaven, yet-to-be-identified man.<\/p>\n

\"JeffJeff Bezos spotted at the Park Hyatt bar in July 2026.<\/p>\n

That is to say, setting aside transport and accommodation, the billionaire Amazon founder has been living much like the rest of us.<\/p>\n

If Sanchez\u2019s Instagram is anything to go by, the pair could well be staying at the Park Hyatt, whose 350-square-metre Sydney Suite bears a striking resemblance to the balcony Sanchez shared a photo of to her 1.1 million followers Sunday morning. The suite\u2019s nightly rate isn\u2019t listed by the Hyatt, but reportedly starts at about $21,000 a night.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the transport. Flight-tracking data shows that one plane widely reported as belonging to Bezos, an ultra-luxury Gulfstream G700 private jet, landed in Sydney at 1.15pm AEST after flying from the Pacific. The PJ is among the best money can buy: it can be configured with as many as five living areas and has a range of 14,353 kilometres. Bezos, whose net worth is valued by Forbes at about $US260 billion ($372 billion), reportedly owns a fleet of four private jets.<\/p>\n

\"JeffJeff Bezos is widely reported as the owner of an ultra-luxury Gulfstream private jet.Michael Howard \/ ADBS Exchange \/ Getty<\/p>\n

Just what the pair is doing in Australia remains a mystery. Amazon does decent business in this market and is among the technology behemoths jockeying to build data centres in Australia. The company already operates more than a dozen on Australian shores, and last year beat out Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink to secure a multimillion-dollar contract with the National Broadband Network to offer satellite internet to rural and regional Australians. Amazon Australia didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment by deadline.<\/p>\n

So our guess is Bezos, who no longer leads the company as chief executive but remains its executive chairman, would surely have a few meetings in the diary, holiday or not. One person he isn\u2019t currently scheduled to meet with is Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, according to a source familiar with the PM\u2019s diary.<\/p>\n

This surprised us, of course, because Albanese has never seen a billionaire tech executive he didn\u2019t want a photo with.<\/p>\n

Related Article\"Patrons<\/a>Where\u2019s Barnaby?<\/p>\n

Last week was a big one for One Nation. It was revealed the Senate\u2019s perennial cooker Malcolm Roberts described Alex Jones, a fountain of conspiracy theories including that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a false flag, \u201ca beacon of hope around the world\u201d.<\/p>\n

Then came leader Pauline Hanson\u2019s Mediterranean sojourn with billionaire Gina Rinehart. This was topped off with a Hanson podcast appearance alongside controversial far-right freak show Tommy Robinson, who\u2019s proven too freaky even for UK Reform leader Nigel Farage and has been dubbed a \u201cthug\u201d by Andrew Bolt.<\/p>\n

\"OneOne Nation member for New England Barnaby Joyce looks on as One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson speaks during a press conference at Parliament House on May 13.Getty Images<\/p>\n

So when our colleagues revealed late last week that Hanson and Barnaby Joyce were in \u201cconstant disagreement\u201d, there was always going to be some forensic tea leaves analysis. Joyce and One Nation, of course, insisted the former Nationals leader and his new boss have a trusting relationship.<\/p>\n

Related Article\"Pauline<\/a><\/p>\n

Such was the case over the weekend when attention turned to the absence of Joyce\u2019s name from the \u201cteam\u201d page on the One Nation website, and the absence of the party name on Joyce\u2019s own website. It\u2019s unclear if Joyce ever made it onto the One Nation website or if it\u2019s been changed. Of course, as with anything One Nation, our guess was the omission would probably have more to do with a lack of professionalism and short staffing numbers than, say, a looming split. But then again, who knows.<\/p>\n

Reached on Sunday, Joyce was \u201ctrying to get a pump on\u201d, which we took to mean exercising, maybe lifting weights. He was exasperated by this masthead\u2019s reporting last week, which revealed disagreements between him and Hanson. \u201cPremised on what?\u201d he asked. When asked about the absence of his name from the One Nation website, Joyce said there was nothing to it.<\/p>\n

Pleasure to be of service clearing that one up.<\/p>\n

Save<\/p>\n

You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n

Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n

\"JohnJohn Buckley<\/a> is a CBD columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.Connect via email<\/a>.From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opinion John BuckleyCBD columnist Updated July 19, 2026 \u2014 5:19pm,first published 4:45pm Updated July 19, 2026 \u2014 5:19pm,first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[247],"class_list":["post-53610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sydney","tag-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}