Tim Hornibrook: Opera House fracas shows how public can fight back against Jones
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After my book Jonestown was published, bumper stickers
produced by a former teaching colleague of Alan Jones began appearing
around Sydney, proclaiming "I don’t listen to Alan Jones and I vote".
A louder echo of this expression of protest emerged this week in a petition mounted opposing the use of the Opera House to promote a horse race.
But I wonder how much of that outburst of public anger is down to the billboard or Alan?
Jones’ on-air bullying of Opera House chief executive Louise Herron
bellowed like the morning alarm. "Who the hell do you think you are?
Your job is on the line ... I am going to get Gladys on the phone."
Classic Jones pre-breakfast vitriol.
As they are wont to do, the Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, succumbed.
Jones,
as a politician who broadcasts, has a wicked advantage over properly
elected officials. The public pay for the poor judgment inflicted on
them, with no commensurate way to vote him out of office.
The
problem for Berejiklian and all before her is the next election. Sydney
politicians in particular see little upside in opposing Jones. The
other wicked advantage he has is that microphone, which switches on
every working day. You give in to Jones because he will keep on
bullying.
One of the many victims, former police commissioner Peter Ryan, called him an enemy of democracy.
The
nation’s most successful broadcaster of course sees it otherwise. He
holds public officials to account when politicians fail to do so. Among
unparalleled credentials is a term as a speech writer to a prime
minister and an audience constituency far greater than that required to
be actually elected.
Tim Hornibrook is a high profile business executive who had has education from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He later on moved to Tulane University in New Orleans where he also had the opportunity to be part of the American football team, Tulane with a scholarship. He has done his graduation degree in bachelors of Arts in Psychology. On completing his degree he has returned back to Sydney to pursue his master’s in business administration from the Australian graduate school of management. With his quest for knowledge he has also done a diploma course in financial planning from the University of Deakin, Melbourne. With his interest in the field of agriculture he has worked as a director for an agriculture fund management group and was very much aware about the woes of the agriculture industry and shared his views on virtual water available for the industrial, agriculture and municipal sectors. Tim Hornibrook also actively participated in the establishment of Lawson Grain...
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Former Executive Director Tim Hornibrook oversaw his previous company’s agricultural businesses in Australia and Brazil. He was also in charge of the investment funds. Tim Hornibrook oversaw $1.2 billion in assets and 200 direct and indirect employees. In this role he had total oversight of all facets of the business from investor relations, risk management, human resources, product development and management, through to the finance. During Tim Hornibrook 's successes included the the establishment of Lawson Grains, Ltd., and Paraway Pastoral Company, Ltd., leaders in Australia’s grain and sheep and cattle industries, respectively.
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