A very Murdoch Christmas
As the silly season begins, Australia’s political and corporate heavyweights are set to converge on Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch’s Bellevue Hill mansion for this year's Christmas bash.
Between the end of the parliamentary year and the final weeks of December lies a liminal space where managing directors and MPs from across the country no longer have to mask their limp end-of-year cognition.
Instead, they can look forward to hopping from one festive do to the next, free to drink themselves into another dimension, with the singular objective of avoiding scandal. The silly season, many of them may now rejoice, is finally upon us.
For many of Australia’s bold-faced names, the first major event on the calendar is Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch’s annual Christmas soirée. Each year, the nation’s powerbrokers and hopefuls flock to the couple’s Bellevue Hill mansion in Sydney’s gilded eastern suburbs to break bread with the billionaire in the hope of endearing themselves to one of the most powerful people in global media and politics.
This year, of course, is no exception.
The Murdochs will welcome guests on Thursday, many of them mainstays of the global News Corp universe, along with new faces, including some who have made the trip down under from the United States. Among them will be Fox Corp executive vice president Brian Nick, one of Lachlan’s closest confidants stateside and a senior figure in the Fox hierarchy.
