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@poddster wrote:

there could be a very simple explanation, the 'ladies' may just have been fashionably late, it is not uncommon 🙂

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 this is business (allegedly) not a doris day re run .

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@diamond-halo wrote:

they was prolly in the kitchen makin' sammiches

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I do hope they made some of Peter Rowland's pinwheel sandwiches.

We had them last October when in Melbourne for the Cup, simply divine!

Can't remember which marquee they were in, we were invited to a few, but those pinwheels oh so scrummy! 

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

Fascinating that he knew the names (nicknames even) for all the men. BUt couldn't call out a single female members name.

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and he probably had those written on his hand, in texta.

it's too rude to utter, ever

OMG,   amber

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

Fascinating that he knew the names (nicknames even) for all the men. BUt couldn't call out a single female members name.

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Especially given there were only a few women compared to the hundreds of men invited along for the trip.

This is not about showing the adults are in office. It's about showing that the men are back in power.