Shorten Raheen sellout follows Scummo bust

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Follow the money as they say, at The Australian:

Tickets are $5000 a pop and almost sold out to Bill Shorten’s Labor fundraiser next week at Anthony Pratt’s Kew mansion Raheen.

And Margin Call can confirm Anthony — the keynote speaker at The Australian’s and Visy’s Global Food Forum yesterday at Sydney’s Sheraton on the Park — his partner Claudine and mother Jeanne Pratt will all be on deck for hosting duties for the Raheen return of Shorten, something of the prodigal son in the Pratt family.

This follows last week’s empty seats for the LNP:

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg struggled to get past security when he drove himself to the billionaire Pratt family mansion Raheen for a fundraiser last night.

…Last night’s event was a Liberal Party pre-election fundraiser with Melbourne’s money: a $12,000-a-head dinner hosted by the billionaire family matriarch Jeanne Pratt.

…All up, we’re told there were fewer than 100 people at the Kew mansion. That’s including the Morrison ministry.

They aren’t going to bloody win, are they?

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.