Whats it to be: a flair mile or plunder down under?
For me, and possibly for you, the price of a coffee makes a useful cost-comparison between here and Paris, here and Helsinki, here and Wodonga high street. For Bankstown boy Paul Keating, the working benchmark is the price of a Zegna suit, because “that’s something I know”. Just how many Zegna suits decorate Wodonga high street is unrecorded, even by Wiki. But it was from the safety of such a suit that Keating recently announced his takeover of the site formerly known as East Darling Harbour. It wasn’t exactly a bloodless coup, since the occasion also marked Keating’s first known utterance of the word Barangaroo, causing blood to trickle down his chin, narrowly missing the suit. Then there were the tears of blood wept by property types as they gazed from the 10th-floor across this vast vacant waterfront, this positive invitation of a site, while the former PM vowed to lose large chunks of it, turning asphalt into ocean. And there were the architects Thalis, Berkmeier and Irwin, who had
