The nation's business leaders regard a private school sinecure as the ultimate networking opportunity, a chance to give back, or to stay in touch with their kids. Here's the power players we found on some boards drawn from Mark Latham's private school hit-list.

Besieged media octogenarian Rupert Murdoch has commenced his three-week tour of his Australian backwater and Holt Street Kremlinologists have been busy piecing together his likely agenda.

Arts philanthropists Simon and Catriona Mordant have sold their Darling Point penthouse after seven months on the market, with a suggested $6.5 million price tag.

There's a few things 36-year-old coal billionaire Nathan Tinkler will miss when he moves to Singapore: the surf at Newcastle, our wonderful beaches, and not being able to drive faster than 90km/h in his fleet of Ferraris, or his Bugatti Veyron.

Diners at Sydney's upmarket Italian noshery, Lucio's, got a special treat with their entrees last night in the shape of Rupert Murdoch and his gang.

When more than a million people tuned in to watch Nine's coverage of the NRL finals last Friday night, it's doubtful they were expecting to be drawn into a Canberra bunfight.

Forget the long hair, tight black jeans and cold beer, it was all about suits, ties and orange juice at Melbourne's inner-city rock mecca The Tote yesterday morning, as Victorian premier Ted Baillieu took to the club's famous sticky carpet to release a long-awaited report on the city's live music scene.