Monday night’s Business Council of Australia’s annual dinner was touted, at least by one social media account which may or may not be managed by the business lobby group’s director of media, as the “corporate grand final”.

If that is so, what is the contest? Business versus politics? Happily, the atmosphere at Sydney’s five-star Four Seasons Hotel was more stadium corporate box than combative arena.

As always at such events, table placements speak to the hierarchy of power, and no detail is too small to be loaded with significance.

Luckily, BCA chief executive Bran Black , the former lawyer who served as chief of staff to former NSW premiers Gladys Berejiklian and Dominic Perrottet , has had two years in the job now to Anna-Wintour the heck out of the seating arrangements.

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