The Sydney Morning Herald‘s Good Food Guide 2006
was sold pre-launch from Mosman book shop Pages & Pages on Saturday for most of the day. The normally embargoed, top secret, hatted Fairfax results are now open slather within the industry before their announcement at the Good Food Guide Awards this afternoon. What the … ?

Mark Scott was quoted in the SMH as saying: “We were chasing the political story not the personal story. We were not doing further investigations into his past behaviour. Mr Brogden had stepped down and we felt the story had moved on.” Could it really be that he did not publish about the past behaviour because his current boss is James Hooke, Fairfax’s NSW managing director, who just happens to be John Brogden’s brother-in-law, speech writer and friend?

There is a lot more to the departure of Flight Centre CEO Shane Flynn than meets the eye. Why have two of the top three execs left within a month?