The buzz of Brisbane
: All over town there’s talk about a high profile figure joining this board then that board around June or July next year. Initials are PB.

Disinterested observers: South Australia ain’t big. That’s their excuse, anyway. Covering the state parliament for Channel Ten is Alex Hart, son of opposition frontbencher and Liberal leadership aspirant Vickie Chapman; for Channel Nine James Wakelin, the son of Liberal fed Barry Wakelin; and writing about another Liberal leadership aspirant, Iain Evans, in The Advertiser today is his former chief of staff, Craig Bildstien.