“Melbourne is the wife, Sydney is the lover,” says Victoria Racing Club CEO Leah Weckert.

Brunch at Chanticleer, hosted in Melbourne, was inevitable. Australian Financial ReviewSydney-based national business newspaper has returned to the age-old rivalry between the country’s two biggest cities.

Melbourne has been Chanticleer’s spiritual home since Robert Gottliebsen founded the column in 1974, and many from the city’s business community flocked to Crown for Friday’s event ahead of Derby Day. The panel included Coles chief executive Leah Weckert, who stressed the need for corporate profits to boost jobs and growth, taking up the baton after Wesfarmers chairman Michael Cheney this week advised politicians of all parties to sack big business.

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