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<\/p>\nMordechai Gutnick<\/b> is the Rabbinic Administrator of Kosher Australia, while Rabbi Menachem Sabbach<\/b>, 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<\/b><\/p>\n
Good to see Her Excellency, the Honourable Professor Margaret Gardner<\/b>, 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<\/b>, a professor at the University of Melbourne, and the vice president is former Australian Sex Party MP Fiona Patten<\/b>.<\/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<\/b>.<\/p>\n
The institution, named after scientist and inventor Lord Kelvin<\/b>, 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<\/b>.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s festivities were supervised by club manager and secretary Miss Pearls<\/b>, previously of rooftop bar Madame Brussels, who runs the club with the assistance of its mascot cavoodle, Goldie Hawn-bags<\/b>.<\/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<\/b><\/p>\n
Federal parliament is back this week (stay with us, please), and Opposition Leader Sussan Ley<\/b> is set to gain the ascendancy over Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. <\/b>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<\/b> (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<\/strong> 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 <\/b>(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<\/b><\/p>\n Now that rapist former MP Gareth Ward<\/b> 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<\/b>\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<\/b>\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<\/b> 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<\/b>\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.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/db13e876b16ae047e4c51c4b67056b17d5c7789a.jpeg\")
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