Myers

"Gibbs’ business associates — Bidwill, Paine, Myers and Friedlander, in particular — were all prospering. Perhaps the highest flyer of this period was Colin Reynolds, the founder of the property development company Chase Corporation. Now that these men and their wives were regulars at the Gibbs house in Parnell, it was less appropriate to get around in bare feet when entertaining. Amanda Gibbs, then a university student with socialist tendencies, was shocked when she saw her parents’ new bourgeois lifestyle."

"So, in the sweltering heat of Macapa in September 2005, he proposed to Myers that they go their separate ways; Myers keep the boat and Gibbs take the helicopter. Myers was annoyed at the sudden change of plans, but on reflection was not surprised. ‘Alan,’ he says, ‘doesn’t like to be pegged down. His idea of fun is to turn up at an airport, see where the next plane is going to and jump aboard. With Senses, by contrast, you can’t just go where you want; you’ve got a crew, a big organisation, another owner — it is the antithesis of freedom.’[27](private://read/01jrsfvkjy84rkprtbz9amfvj8/#rw-num-note-477408-606132179-27)"