Sydney

"when Stokes heard she had relapsed after treatment, he organised an appointment with Sydney’s best specialist and flew them both there. Hull would never forget the gesture. Nor the fact, years later, that Stokes discreetly helped him in a legal matter that was important to Hull and of no advantage to Stokes, by then his former employer. Hull didn’t know then what he heard about later: that Stokes helped a lot of people on the quiet."

"The appeal of also moving Seven to Docklands was clear, apart from the obvious motive of quitting the old building in Dorcas Street. It was a natural fit for the station that had, after all, been broadcasting AFL football in Melbourne for forty years. But this wouldn’t just be moving house: Stokes saw it as a chance to leapfrog competitors in terms of technology and efficiency. He decided, as he said later, not just to ‘weed the garden — but to build a new landscape altogether’. He thought out a plan to build a national broadcast centre next to the Docklands dome that would become one of his most satisfying achievements, although the gleaming news centre he built next in Sydney’s Martin Place wasn’t far behind."