A key piece of information some people may not be aware of is that James Packer and Mariah Carey were engaged in 2016. So the idea is that Packer suffers even more than the rest of us for having to hear that song a hundred times in December, as each time he is also reminded of his ex.

That it’s dIcTaToR dAn making a menacing phone call from Tiananmen Square, is, as far as I know, just a template and a bit of surreal flair. I suppose it makes some sense for an ALP politician to have a hostile orientation towards an Australian billionaire, especially one who has owned news media.