Sydney Festival 2007

From musical balloons to Samuel Beckett, there's more than enough to satisfy even the most hungry culture vulture.

Private Equity Binge Smacks Of '80s Excess

"WE HAVE the amazing spectacle of huge migratory balances of liquid purchasing power, swooping like vulture from capital to capital to fatten where they may. Not inaptly have the results been termed 'an anarchy of purchasing power'." (Roland Wilson, 1934, who was later to become Commonwealth statistician, economic adviser to the Commonwealth secretary to the Treasury, 1949-1965.)