🔜 Last year, she sold Tulloch Lodge to Asian interests because she’d come to a stage in her life where she was happy to work for someone else, as she told CPA Australia chief executive Alex Malley, in an interview for INTHEBLACK TV program #Horse

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“It's such an honour to train for the Queen."
Palace officials first asked her a series of questions to verify her identity.
Once satisfied that it was the champion Australian racehorse trainer on the line, Waterhouse was put through to the Queen.
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#Queen
Carlton House was a gift to the Queen from Sheikh Mohammed and started favourite in the English Derby and ran third before being runner-up to So You Think in the Prince Of Wales Stakes.

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G1 Queen Elizabeth -. “Unorthodox, yes, but the truth is that the Golden Slipper has played a vital role in Australian racing and breeding since its inauguration in 1957.”

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It will be the first time in 35 years that horse racing trainer Gai Waterhouse hasn’t been at Flemington Racecourse to watch the Melbourne Cup

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It is notable that Singleton versus Waterhouse has occurred at a time when another very Sydney matter has been played out in the daily national news. The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry into the awarding of lucrative mining leases -

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“The country is a constitutional monarchy and part of the commonwealth, and the Queen is the Sovereign”

“There, the Queen is not involved in the day-to-day running of the country, but instead conducts important ceremonial roles”

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“The Home Secretary Theresa May said earlier month that child sexual abuse ran through British society like a “stick of Blackpool rock” and warned that the public did not fully “appreciate the true scale” of exploitation”
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SkyNews reporting "a major leak containing a register w/the personal identifying details of 1.95 mil Communist Party members [in #China], mostly from Shanghai, there are also the details of 79,000 Communist Party branches, many of them inside companies”.

What appears to be so newsworthy about this particular leaked list is the presence of CCP branches in not only foreign-invested firms in #China, but also in firms entirely located overseas.

This is by no means new-- I wrote several years ago about #China's massive Party-building drive to construct new CCP branches in Shanghai's NGOs in @chinaquarterly (The Advance of the Party: Transformation or Takeover of Urban Grassroots Society?*
https://t.co/I1XKmkPKty )...

As well as the CCP's attempts to "comprehensively cover" 全覆盖 Shanghai's private sector in "The New Life of the Party: Party-Building & Social Engineering in Greater Shanghai" in the #China Journal, but what's apparently of concern in the leaked list..

...is the number of new Communist Party branches & committees now in Chinese-invested companies abroad. This is unsurprisingly going on on a massive scale in countries housing #China's Belt and Road projects as part of the CCP's "going out" 走出去efforts...#OBOR #BRI #一带一路

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