Writing in the UK
Telegraph newspaper in a piece titled
Even the Aussies want to bend the knee to the Queen , London Mayor
Boris Johnson says he made a $100 bet 20 years ago in a Melbourne pub and as he has won the bet-he wants his winnings !. Unfortunately for Johnson, he just can't remember who he made the bet with as he lost a slip of paper with a name on it but he recalls it was an Australian university professor.
Johnson says :
"somewhere out there is a vaguely Left-wing Aussie professor who owes me a
hundred bucks. The only trouble is that I can't remember his name, so I am
shamelessly using this column to jog his memory "
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The subject of the bet : that
HRH The Queen would still be the monarch of Australia in the year 2000, which she was and still is.
Boris had just seen the film
The King's Speech in which
Geoffrey Rush as the speech therapist
Lionel Logue reminds the future
King George V1 that he will also be the King of Australia. The line jogged Johnson's memory about the bet he made all that time ago when he was a visiting Professor of European Thought at Monash University.
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If you are that professor then 'fess up and send Boris his $100.
In the meantime, perhaps the London Mayor who nips around the dangerous London traffic on a push bike could give our dog collar wearing Sydney Lord Mayor
Clover Moore some tips on just what those intrusive bike lanes that have appeared all over Sydney are actually used for.
On a trip from the Harbour Bridge today, the
Shuttle travelled to the headquarters of Courier Newspapers in Alexandria alongside miles of the gleaming new bike lanes that have halved the size of car space on roads. We didn't spot one single cyclist.
One guest at the Tom Keneally celebration was top show biz publicist Wendy Day (pictured with husband publisher Mark Day.)
Wendy was having a cultural respite after collecting her most famous and steadfastly loyal client, superstar Nicole Kidman (in Prada) who arrived in Sydney that morning before heading to Melbourne to attend the Suisse Celebrate Life Ball with hubby Keith Urban to aid the Monash Children’s Hospital and Sydney’s Children’s Hospital. And doesn't she look fab!
