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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

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    The existence of an exclusive hideaway for the country's movers
    and shakers where secret deals were done in private luxury first exploded into the public eye
    back in 2007.

    Back then, the fact that Qantas spent hundreds
    of thousands of dollars wining and dining the nation's political elite in ultra-exclusive VIP lounges
    was relatively unknown.

    It was a time before Alan Joyce's tenure as the CEO of Qantas had
    even started, when he was boss of the comparatively lowly budget
    airline, Jetstar.

    And unlike Anthony Albanese's current slide in the polls leading up to an election in next year, the prospects back in 2007 were rosy for Labor. 

    The election that was looming was the 'Kevin 07' landslide that would see Kevin Rudd become prime minister and John Howard lose his own seat. 

    The issue which blew open the 'guilty secret' of the Chairman's Lounge then wasn't about
    a prime minister's privileges, although John Howard and Kevin Rudd were certainly both members during their terms as
    PM. 

    But when broadcaster Steve Price - himself a long time Chairman's Lounge member - revealed a politically charged remark made within the club's hallowed walls,
    the cat was out of the bag.

    The political revelation - a comment by ex-rock star turned senator
    Peter Garrett that Labor would change the policies it campaigned on if it won government - did not
    deter his party from romping in on election day.

    In contrast, the scandal currently engulfing Anthony Albanese about his Chairman's Lounge membership and that of his ex-wife Carmel
    Tebbutt, and their son Nathan could bring down the prime minister. 
     




    The exclusive Qantas Chairman's Lounge (above) has been a
    well-kept secret for years, but it exploded into the
    public conscience in 2007 as the result of a political
    furore





    Broadcaster Steve Price revealed he had been a Chairman's Lounge member
    since 2002 during a row before the 2007 election won by Kevin Rudd which let the cat out of the bag about the VIP club

    The existence of the lounge was so little known back in 2007 that in defending his disclosure of Garrett's remark,
    Steve Price had to explain what the private enclave actually was.


    In a first person piece he wrote: 'The Chairman's Lounge is a separate frequent flyers lounge away from the crowded
    normal Qantas Club. 

    'As its name implies, the people given access to it are approved by the Qantas chairman, Margaret Jackson. 

    'I have been a Chairman's Lounge member since 2002.'

    In his opinion piece, Price also revealed TV entertainment
    reporter Richard Wilkins was also a member of lounge.



    Wilkins had also been inside at the time and was his only witness to the remark Price said Garrett had made.


    Other prominent media figures, such as 60 Minutes reporters, actors
    and performers, and well-known writers and sports people are
    said to be among the lounge's exclusive membership of around 6000.


    Price went on to defend himself for reporting what some claimed was a
    confidential conversation in a private place, but which exposed him to criticism
    over his own membership for allegedly promoting Qantas
    on his radio show.




    Back in 2007, Alan Joyce (left) was boss of the comparatively lowly budget airline Jetstar,
    and then Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon (right) had the power over who made the
    cut to the Chairman's Lounge





    One observer has described the relationship bet6ween leading politicians
    such as PM Anthony Albanese and the former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce (above) as 'alarmingly cosy'

    'Why on earth is Qantas giving a controversial shock jock membership of its Chairman's Lounge, which is supposedly to enable our elite politicians and business leaders some privacy from the hoi
    polloi?' demanded Crikey reporter Stephen Mayne at the time.


    'The Chairman's Lounge is meant to be all about discretion and confidentiality,' he said, accusing Price
    of breaking 'a confidence'.

    The following year, before he was succeeded as
    Qantas CEO by Alan Joyce, Geoff Dixon was the sole gatekeeper of entry into the club's hushed confines.


    Qantas Chairman's Lounge membership was 'so
    exclusive that you have to be personally invited by the airline's
    chieftain', Nine newspapers reported in 2008.

    'A marvellous benefit of lounge membership is that the mega
    rich and powerful avoid having to mingle with the riffraff who will be travelling cattle class.



    'Having said that, members of the ultra-exclusive club have included Pauline Hanson.

    'Another lounge member is Brad Cooper, who is currently enjoying a prolonged
    exposure to cattle-class in Kirkconnell Correctional Centre.' (Cooper was the
    former HIH insurance executive jailed for eight years on fraud and bribery offences).





    Membership of the elite lounge is confined to about 6000 Australians including politicians from both
    sides, senior public servants, TV stars and actors






    The 'scandal' currently engulfing Anthony Albanese about his Chairman's Lounge membership and that of his ex-wife
    Carmel Tebbutt, and their son Nathan could bring down the prime minister (above the
    PM with partner Jodie Haydon and ex-Qantas CEO Alan Joyce)

    The report noted that politicians declaring membership of the lounge 'which
    most of their spouses got too' in their pecuniary interests that year included Liberal
    MPs of the day, Philip Ruddock, Bob Baldwin and Andrew Southcott.


    Labor MPs with lounge privileges included Tanya Plibersek,
    Bob McMullan, and Sharon Grierson, and Martin Ferguson declared a bottle
    of Grange hermitage as a gift from Qantas,
    as did Liberal, Christopher Pyne.

    Asked if all MPs got the captain's pick from Geoff Dixon, the airline's spokesperson  told Nine:
    'We like to retain a bit of mystery. Membership is by invitation only and it is reviewed periodically.'

    Fast forward to today, and nearly every single federal politician in the country has accepted
    free membership of the controversial, invitation-only lounge
    with one even describing it as an 'entitlement'. 

    Qantas and the Albanese government recently denied the 'very, very
    high-end perk' gives the airline a disproportionate level of influence
    over the country's politicians.

    They were commenting ahead of the launch of the
    new book The Chairman's Lounge by former
    Australian Financial Review columnist Joe Aston, which has stirred
    up the controversy. 

    A Daily Mail Australia audit of the members' interest registers - in both Federal Parliament's House of Representatives and the Senate - revealed almost 93 per cent of the nation's leaders have been 'gifted' membership to the lavish, all-inclusive lounge.


    Mr Albanese has defended himself by saying he declared all his benefits in pecuniary interest statements. 

    At a press conference this week, he repeated that all of his upgrades 'have been declared as appropriate.

    What's appropriate is transparency.'  

    Apart from the PM, members include every one of his 22-person Cabinet, his seven-person Outer
    Ministry and all 12 assistant ministers.





    PM Anthony Albanese and every member of his 22-person Cabinet, his seven-person Outer Ministry and all 12 assistant ministers are members of the exclusive
    Chairman's Lounge





    Entry to the country's six opulent VIP clubs are suitably discreet, but once inside, the designer lounges offer free à la carte fine
    dining, table service and a discreet army of dedicated lounge attendants

    On the Coalition side of parliament, Opposition Leader Peter
    Dutton, deputy leader David Littleproud and former deputy Barnaby Joyce are
    also among the swathes of politicians who have disclosed they have taken up free membership
    to the contentious club.

    Bill Shorten is a member, Tanya Plibersek is still a member and
    so is Teal MP, Zali Steggall.

    Last year it was reported that Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairwoman Gina Cass-Gottlieb and Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman Joe Longo and some of their deputies are
    members of the Chairman's Lounge despite regulating the airline. 

    Senior public servants in the club included Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet secretary Glyn Davis, deputy secretaries Nadine Williams, Liz Hefren-Webb, Rachel Bacon and ambassador to Beijing, Scott Dewar.


    Other Qantas freebies bestowed on members include numerous business class flight upgrades, model Qantas
    aircrafts, frequent flyer points, and tickets to sporting and entertainment
    events. 

    Touted as 'the most exclusive club in the country', membership to the Chairman's Lounge is still
    veiled in secrecy.




    The new book The Chairman's Lounge by former Australian Financial Review columnist Joe Aston (above) has stirred up the controversy 





    Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairwoman Gina
    Cass-Gottlieb and Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman Joe Longo are members
    despite regulating the airline

    Even the entrances to each of the country's six opulent VIP clubs - in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra and Perth airports
    - are suitably discreet.

    Once inside, however, the designer lounges are noticeably luxurious, with free à
    la carte fine dining, table service, a decadent selection of
    wines and Champagne and a discreet army of dedicated lounge attendants.


    Virgin Airlines has its own version of the VIP enclave, the 'Beyond' lounge. 

    Only a handful of federal politicians have relinquished their membership to the Qantas Chairman's Lounge in the wake of the
    furore.

    The select few to take a principled stand on the issue include South Australian senator Barbara Pocock and former Wallabies star turned ACT senator David Pocock, along with MPs Stephen Bates, Queensland Green Elizabeth Watson-Brown, and Monique Ryan,
    a Teal from Victoria.

    Geoffrey Watson SC, a former counsel assisting the
    Independent Commission Against Corruption and a director of the Centre
    for Public Integrity, has implored all politicians and policymakers
    to follow suit.

    'There are certain positions in life where you cannot take Chairman's
    Club membership,' he said.

    'You're taking public money for the job and you are supposed to represent the public.
    Why not sit with them while you're waiting for a plane?'


    QantasAnthony Albanese

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