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The winner of the 2024 series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! has been crowned. McFly singer Danny Jones won the public vote in the final episode on Sunday, with Coleen Rooney coming second and the Reverend Richard Coles in third place. It was once again presented by Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly and filmed in New South Wales, Australia. This year's line-up proved to be less controversial than previous years, after makers ITV confirmed it would feature no politicians. Jones, 38, cried as he was crowned the 2024 winner, saying it felt "amazing" and "surreal". He is part of the pop-rock boyband McFly, which formed in the early 2000s and scored hits with songs including Five Colours in Her Hair and All About You. Rooney hit headlines when the so-called Wagatha Christie case went to court in 2022. Ahead of the winner being named, Rooney said: "Knowing that I have made it to the final makes me proud. I'm a proud mum, I'm a proud wife, I'm a proud daughter." Jones added: "It feels amazing, I didn't expect this at all." During the final, the trio took on their final Bushtucker trial to win a three-course meal for their last night in camp. In his exit interview, Coles said: "It was much harder than I thought it would be, but that was great. "The best thing was everybody else, we had such a good time." Also part of the line-up were professional dancer Oti Mabuse, Coronation street actor Alan Halsall, former professional boxer Barry McGuigan and TikToker GK Barry. Love Island star Maura Higgins and Coles arrived in camp as this year's late arrivals. Loose Women panellist Jane Moore was the first person to leave, calling it a "weird and magical experience". She declined to call it a positive time, saying "I've never been so soaked in my life, constantly", referencing the rain that swept the camp on several days. Radio 1 DJ Dean McCullough was second to leave, after taking on seven trials during his time on the show. He proved to be a divisive figure in the camp after being accused of not pulling his weight in tasks by his fellow celebrities. In a shock twist , N-Dubz singer and former X Factor judge Tulisa Constostavlos became the third celebrity to leave. She did not appear on ITV's spin-off show I'm A Celebrity... Unpacked and then deleted all posts about the show on her Instagram page. Then Constostavlos posted a video, saying she had been feeling "overwhelmed" since leaving the jungle and was taking a break to focus on her mental health. Next out was radio and TV presenter Melvin Odoom, who told hosts Ant and Dec that he "was ready to go" and reflected on his new friendships with Oti Mabuse, Danny Jones and Barry McGuigan. After a night of no celebrities leaving on Wednesday evening, it meant two were given the boot on Thursday evening. Barry McGuigan and Maura Higgins left the camp, in what was a shock twist for viewers. Higgins said she was "really happy" to leave. "'It's my time'. I had a gut feeling and my gut feeling is never wrong!" she told Ant and Dec in her exit chat. McGuigan, however, was sad to leave as it meant he couldn't take part in the final challenge, the infamous Celebrity Cyclone. As I'm A Celebrity series go, it's been a fairly peaceful one, with campmates getting on well and working together during challenges. Elsewhere, the I'm A Celeb lore of unlikely friendships continued, with social media star and podcaster GK Barry sharing many deep chats with Reverend Richard Coles. "I don't know what a bromance is between a 62-year-old gay man and a 25-year-old lesbian, whatever it is, we're having one," Coles joked while speaking in the Bush Telegraph. GK Barry and Coles joined the likes of Star Trek's George Takei and Eastenders' Joe Swash, plus X Factor star Jake Quickenden and former politician Edwina Currie, in the show's unlikely duo category.

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USEDC Provides Year-to-Date Oil and Gas Market Update and Post-Election OutlookMoneyTalks is Stockhead’s regular drill down into what stocks investors are looking at right now. We tap our extensive list of experts to hear what’s hot, their top picks, and what they’re looking out for. Today we hear from Cerutty Macro Fund's Chris Judd. Known for his dual Brownlow Medal wins and sterling career as one of the AFL's greatest names, Chris Judd's performance in the world of finance is beginning to transcend the premiership-winning form of his playing days. Starting out as an analyst for venture capital, Judd's now over 150 episodes deep on Talk Ya Book, a video podcast tapping the knowledge of Australia and beyond's most notable fundies and business thinkers, and closing in on 18 months managing the Cerutty Macro Fund. A long-only equities portfolio targeting 15-40 stocks named after the free-thinking Percy Cerutty – iconoclastic and eccentric coach of Aussie track legend and later business leader Herb Elliott – its raison d'etre is to find micro and small-cap Aussie equities and larger global names with upside based on the fund's analysis of the macroeconomic picture. Since its inception, Cerutty has delivered solid performance – adding 19.23% on an annualised basis since its launch and 29.17% over the year to October 31, despite a dip in the final month of that period. That compares to 12.03% and 26.65% for its benchmark, the ASX small ords accumulation index. But the US election and the looming return of Donald Trump to the White House with an all Republican-controlled legislature are the game changers at front of mind for Judd. And the early days post-election have given Judd and the Cerutty team reason to see his coming second term in a different light, seeing ongoing strength in the US dollar as a result. "We initially thought the US dollar would drop more under Trump because we thought his deficits were going to be bigger," Judd told Stockhead. "But for a number of reasons we've altered that view and we think the US is going to suck in a lot of capital now as they get rid of deregulation and reduce tax rates. "And we think internally in the US, you could see a real boom. "The US dollar has already been strong for a long time, so plenty of people are calling for it to roll over, but we've adjusted that view." Fundies like Chris Judd are trying to cut through the confusion around the market impact of Donald Trump's election. Pic: Getty Images Tariffs and taxes The two key Trump policies Judd is watching closely are income tax cuts, which economists think will spur a ramp up in consumer spending over 2026 and 2027, as well as radical tariffs placed not just on products out of China, but also friendly nations like Canada and Mexico. "The tax cuts are probably the most important thing and we think it will pass in the first 100 days," Judd said. "We think they have a big impact on the consumer, particularly a lot of those tax cuts are around people that don't have a huge amount of income, removing tax on tips (for example). "These types of people generally spend a larger portion of what they earn, as opposed to high income earners ... who are already consuming the vast majority of what they need." Judd thinks that could be positive for payment and gambling stocks exposed to the US market like gaming company Light & Wonder (ASX:LNW) , Afterpay owner Block Inc (ASX:SQ2) , which Cerutty doesn't hold, and Paypal (NASDAQ:PYPL) , which it does. The tariffs, on the other hand, could be "more bark than bite" compared to the tax cuts. Judd says Trump could be wielding them as a stick in negotiations with trading partners. "We think the tariffs will be implemented gradually and used as a tool for behavioural change that Trump wants to see with other countries," he said. That means they won't necessarily be the inflationary fuel from the moment of Trump's inauguration, as some commentators fear. "We'll wait and see, but we think they're more a bargaining tool for him to see a response from different governments around the world." The fallout for commodities Trump's return to the Oval Office will also bring with it a pro-development mindset, with deregulation and a thinning of the Capitol Hill bureaucracy high on the agenda. Judd thinks that could be less bullish for commodity prices, which thrive when metals and energy fuels are in short supply. "One of the reasons we were bullish commodity prices was because of all the red tape surrounding commodity producers as they tried to pull stuff out of the ground, as well as the ESG movement which had gone from being seemingly about the environment and it just kept scaling up until it took on more of a religious fervour," he said. "We think that's going to be really reduced." Cerutty's team also sees a high likelihood of an end to the conflict in Ukraine. Ukraine and Russia are both major mining, energy and agricultural producers. But outside of the US, a right-wing wave is on the horizon across major South American copper, lithium and iron ore producing countries following the success last year of free-market firebrand Javier Milei in Argentina. "There's a couple of right-wing leaders in those countries that are very much pro-business, pro the economy and anti-regulation, much like Milei has been, much like Trump's promising to be in his second term," Judd said. "And so that's great for the supply of commodities, but we think it's potentially a headwind to the price of commodities, copper and lithium producers in particular." The other side of the equation for commodities is Chinese demand. There could be issues there for bulks. "We think that China will stimulate their economy, but we think that stimulus will be pushed towards increasing internal consumption in China," Judd said. "We don't think it's going to be built around building more apartment blocks and they're already producing so many manufactured goods to be exported. "We're not sure if that's where the attention is going to go, either. We think the main thing China needs is to start increasing consumption domestically. "We think that's where the stimulus will be pushed towards, which is certainly less commodity intensive, particularly around bulks." Stocks to watch One of Cerutty's top picks is AML3D (ASX:AL3) , which recently raised $30 million to expand its operations in the United States, where it produces and supplies the Arcemy system, a 3D metal printing process, to US Navy contractors. $12m of that will be used to double the scale of its technology centre in Ohio, where it produces Arcemy manufacturing systems as well as undertakes contract manufacturing, alloy testing and prototyping contracts. It stands to benefit from the Trump administration's motivation to build up domestic manufacturing capacity. "AL3 is an additive manufacturing business that's already got a chunk of contracts with the US Navy and Department of Defense and there are some huge navy contracts coming up," Judd said. "They're well funded and may be a beneficiary of the US wanting to build out its manufacturing capacity." And the automated nature of its manufacturing processes means it is less likely to be negatively impacted by the potential removal of low cost labour implied by the proposed deportation of 11 million undocumented migrants. "The productivity from these additive manufacturing machines is significant," Judd said. "We could see a world where the US, using more innovation, can build out that manufacturing capacity whilst not flooding their country with new available low-cost labour." Looking to Australia's own defence industry spending, Judd says contractor Civmec (ASX:CVL) is positioning itself to benefit. "It is looking at completing a JV with Austal (ASX:ASB) and some of the navy contracts and shipbuilding contracts available in Australia for the submarine program are going to be really significant," he said. "We think some of those companies could play into that thematic of increased defence spending, which we think is going to continue to be really strong even though we don't think the war between Russia and Ukraine can continue for an extended period. "We still think defence spending in the US, particularly in Europe, but (also) other countries around the world is going continue to be heightened." The views, information, or opinions expressed in the interviews in this article are solely those of the interviewees and do not represent the views of Stockhead. Stockhead does not provide, endorse or otherwise assume responsibility for any financial product advice contained in this article. Originally published as MoneyTalks: How the US election has changed the game for football legend turned fundie Chris Judd Stockhead Don't miss out on the headlines from Stockhead. Followed categories will be added to My News. More related stories Stockhead How the Santa rally keeps giving to the ASX December brings the ‘Santa rally’, accounting for 29% of Aussie market gains – a smart time to stay invested? Read more Stockhead Copper production goal for these companies Junior companies with the right mix of resources, location and exploration potential are racing towards the line to be the next mid-tier ASX copper producer. Read more“Not the ideal place” – Worrying prediction made for Amorim’s first Man Utd game vs Ipswich

The Air Force has given industry the green light to start working on and submitting proposals for a potential five-year, $750 million professional services contract vehicle focused on U.S. Central Command’s headquarters. Bids for the multiple-award contract known by the acronym of CHIPS are due no later than 10 a.m. Eastern time on Jan. 9. Questions must be submitted no later than 10 a.m. Eastern time on Dec. 20, the Air Force said in a . Air Force officials plan to award approximately 20 positions on the vehicle, which is reserved for companies with the service-disabled veteran-owned and 8(a) distinctions. The service branch is also eyeing an even split of awards between both groups. Offerors must declare to which small business designation they are proposing, in this case either SDVOSB or 8(a). Work under the CENTCOM Headquarters IDIQ will primarily take place at the location indicated, or in this case at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida. CENTCOM’s area of responsibility includes 21 countries that are mostly in the Middle East. The contract covers support for CENTCOM directorates, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Staff and other Defense Department components. Awardees will compete for task orders to carry out program management services, management and program analysis, assessment, monitoring, and evaluation, information technology, data science, logistics management, operational contract support, vendor threat mitigation, acquisition management, and intelligence services. CHIPS is a brand new requirement with no incumbent. The period of performance is one initial base year with up to four individual option years.WASHINGTON — The FBI should have done more to gather intelligence before the Capitol riot, according to a watchdog report Thursday that also said no undercover FBI employees were on the scene on Jan. 6, 2021, and that none of the bureau's informants was authorized to participate. The report from the Justice Department inspector general's office knocks down a fringe conspiracy theory advanced by some Republicans in Congress that the FBI played a role in instigating the events that day, when rioters determined to overturn Republican Donald Trump's 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden stormed the building in a violent clash with police. The review, released nearly four years after a dark chapter in history that shook the bedrock of American democracy, was narrow in scope, but aimed to shed light on gnawing questions that have dominated public discourse, including whether major intelligence failures preceded the riot and whether the FBI in some way provoked the violence. The report offers a mixed assessment of the FBI's performance in the run-up to the riot, crediting the bureau for preparing for the possibility of violence and for trying to identify known "domestic terrorism subjects" who planned to come to Washington that day. But it said the FBI, in an action the now-deputy director described as a "basic step that was missed," failed to canvass informants across all 56 of its field offices for any relevant intelligence. That was a step, the report concluded, "that could have helped the FBI and its law enforcement partners with their preparations in advance of January 6." The report found 26 FBI informants were in Washington for election-related protests on Jan. 6, including three who were tasked with traveling to the city to report on others who were potentially planning to attend the day's events. While four informants entered the Capitol, none were authorized to do so by the bureau or to break the law, the report said. Many of the 26 informants provided the FBI with information before the riot, but it "was no more specific than, and was consistent with, other sources of information" that the FBI acquired. The FBI said in a letter responding to the report that it accepts the inspection general's recommendation "regarding potential process improvements for future events." The lengthy review was launched days after the riot as the FBI faced questions over whether it had missed warning signs or adequately disseminated intelligence it received, including a Jan. 5, 2021, bulletin prepared by the FBI's Norfolk, Virginia, field office that warned of the potential for "war" at the Capitol. The inspector general found the information in that bulletin was broadly shared. FBI Director Chris Wray, who announced this week his plans to resign at the end of Biden's term in January, defended his agency's handing of the intelligence report. He told lawmakers in 2021 that the report was disseminated though the joint terrorism task force, discussed at a command post in Washington and posted on an internet portal available to other law enforcement agencies. "We did communicate that information in a timely fashion to the Capitol Police and (Metropolitan Police Department) in not one, not two, but three different ways," Wray said at the time. Separately, the report said the FBI's New Orleans field office was told by a source between November 2020 and early January 2021 that protesters were planning to station a "quick reaction force" in northern Virginia "to be armed and prepared to respond to violence that day in DC, if necessary." That information was shared with the FBI's Washington Field Office, members of intelligence agencies and some federal law enforcement agencies the day before the riot, the inspector general found. But there was no indication the FBI told northern Virginia police about the information, the report said. An FBI official told the inspector general there was "nothing actionable or immediately concerning about it." A cache of weapons at a Virginia hotel as part of a "quick reaction force" was a central piece of the Justice Department's seditious conspiracy case against Oath Keeper leader Stewart Rhodes and other members of the far-right extremist group. The conspiracy theory that federal law enforcement officers entrapped members of the mob has been spread in conservative circles, including by some Republican lawmakers. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., recently suggested on a podcast that agents pretending to be Trump supporters were responsible for instigating the violence. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who withdrew as Trump's pick as attorney general amid scrutiny over sex trafficking allegations, sent a letter to Wray in 2021 asking how many undercover agents or informants were at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and if they were "merely passive informants or active instigators." Wray said the "notion that somehow the violence at the Capitol on January 6 was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources and agents is ludicrous."

NATO and Ukraine to hold emergency talks after Russian attack with hypersonic missileJosh Hubbard scored 25 points and Claudell Harris Jr. scored 21 on 6-of-9 shooting as Mississippi State escaped with a 91-84 win against Prairie View A&M on Sunday in Starkville, Miss. Prairie View A&M took a 65-64 lead with 10:38 remaining, but Hubbard and Harris Jr. each scored seven points to power the ensuing 14-1 run that put Mississippi State up for good. Hubbard punctuated the rally with a 3-pointer that made it 78-66 with 5:51 to play. The Bulldogs (8-1) stretched their lead to as many as 13 points in the closing minutes to notch their second straight win. Shawn Jones Jr. added 11 points for Mississippi State, while Michael Nwoko added 10 points and 10 rebounds. RJ Melendez also netted 10 points. The Panthers (1-8) were led by the trio of Nick Anderson (21 points) Tanahj Pettway (20) and Marcel Bryant (19). Pettway drilled 4 of 5 3-pointers and Bryant grabbed seven rebounds. Prairie View A&M got off to a hot start, opening up a 27-12 lead with 10:42 left in the first half. It was a surprising haymaker from the visitors, who entered the game winless in Division I play and faced a Bulldogs team that was ranked last week. Mississippi State eventually found its stride offensively, turning things around with a 32-17 run to tie the game at 44 entering halftime. The Bulldogs shot 50 percent from the field overall in the first half, but only made six of their 17 attempts from 3-point range (35.3 percent). Their defense remained an issue throughout the half, with the Panthers hitting 16 of their 27 shots (59.3 percent) and canning 5 of 8 3-pointers. Neither team led by more than five early in the second half until Mississippi State pulled away. The Bulldogs finished the game shooting 55.6 percent from the floor (30-of-54) and drilled 11 of 26 attempts (42.3 percent) from long range. They outrebounded Prairie View A&M 35-22 and outscored them 31-20 in bench points. The Panthers held a 34-32 advantage in points in the paint and shot 56.4 percent overall for the game, including 52.6 percent (10-of-19) on threes. --Field Level Media

President Joe Biden's decision to pardon his son, Hunter, is throwing a bomb in his party's post-election soul-searching. Democrats are still sifting through the rubble of their loss to President-elect Donald Trump last month, with some in the party blaming a reputation -- justified or not -- as elitists out of touch with everyday voters' concerns while cozying up to other wealthy and well-connected allies. Now, after months of vows that he wouldn't do so and arguing the justice system treated Trump appropriately, Biden is scrapping his son's supposedly politicized convictions on tax and gun charges, sparking a warning the move fortifies perceptions that the party doesn't keep its word and is playing by its own set of rules. "This literally reinforces the very challenge that Democrats confronted in the election, which is elites talking to elites convincing each other that they're right. Well, you can't get any more elite than this," said Chris Kofinis, a Democratic strategist and former aide to Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va. "It's not the question of pardoning the son. What about everybody else's son?" Kofinis added. "If you're going to take this kind of a dramatic action that's going to benefit a single person in your family, you have a responsibility to go out there and say why. But you can't say the reason why is because the justice system is rigged, because you just spent the last four years saying it wasn't rigged. So, it's not rigged for Trump, but it's rigged for your son?" Hunter Biden had been convicted on federal gun charges after lying about his drug use on an application for a firearm and had pleaded guilty to nine tax-related charges, including three felonies. MORE: How President Biden came to the decision to pardon his son Hunter The president's announcement Sunday evening marked a bombshell at the tail end of a holiday weekend. In it, Biden insisted that his son had been "treated differently" after "several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election." The pardon is also particularly broad, covering all "offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in" from Jan. 1, 2014, through Dec. 1, 2024, beyond the gun and tax charges. Republicans swiftly cried foul at the move, lambasting it as a manipulation of justice, particularly after Biden for months said he wouldn't use his power to intervene in his son's legal troubles. "Joe Biden has lied from start to finish," House Oversight Chair James Comer, R-Ky., wrote in a post on X . "It's unfortunate that, rather than come clean about their decades of wrongdoing, President Biden and his family continue to do everything they can to avoid accountability." "Tonight's pardon is wrong. It proves to the American people that there is a two-tier system of justice," added Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, who will be the No. 2 Senate Republican in the next Congress. Democratic lawmakers were tighter-lipped over the pardon late Sunday but were more vocal in their opposition by Monday afternoon. "Democrats should have been for reforming and curtailing pardon power from Day 1 of the Biden Presidency. As a father, I empathize with President Biden, but we must be the party of reform whether it's about the archaic pardon power, opposing super PACs or broad war powers," Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said on X . "President Biden's decision to pardon his son was wrong. A president's family and allies shouldn't get special treatment. This was an improper use of power, it erodes trust in our government, and it emboldens others to bend justice to suit their interests," Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich, added . Now, some party operatives warned to ABC News, Democrats risked being seen as executing the same behavior they'd been warning against from Trump ahead of his inauguration, making their campaign rhetoric about the justice system's integrity apply to only one side of the political divide. "It is somewhat toying with [voters]," one Democratic pollster said. "The takeaway, to the extent that there are any left, for the average, independent voter is, is that, both sides are just playing games with each other. They don't mean any of this rhetoric." The White House Monday sought to play damage control, laying blame at the feet of Republicans who will have unified control of Washington starting later next month and have hammered away at Hunter Biden's legal travails and business ties for years. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that Biden issued the pardon in part "because they didn't seem like his political opponents would let go of it." "They would continue to go after his son. That's what he believed," she added, declining to speculate on the political fallout of the move. "Two things could be true. You can believe in the department of justice system, and you could also believe that the process was affected politically," she insisted. MORE: Washington DC reacts to President Biden pardoning son Hunter in shock decision The pardon controversy is coming as some Democrats partly blame Biden's decision to run for reelection in the first place as a reason for Harris' defeat. While many Democrats expressed empathy for Biden's position as a father, they suggested it marked another reason to put the president in the rearview mirror as the party puts together a new playbook for the future -- a separation that, some hoped, could minimize any long-term fallout. "I think the party is already going to move on from him so deeply and so completely that I don't know that this severs that connection between Biden and the future the Democratic Party any more or any less than it already would have been. If anything, it may quicken it," one senior Democratic strategist said. "I think it's politically stupid," the person said. "It makes us look bad, and it makes us look like we don't have the moral high ground, and we either need to own that, or we need to own that we need to stop being so preachy. I think it's bad politics, but it's not clear to me what exactly the repercussions will be." Still, that doesn't mean Democrats who are skeptical of any long-term implications are pleased with the move. Nearly every Democrat who spoke to ABC News worried that Biden's pardon kicked the door open for Trump to protect people they predicted will be unworthy of pardons. And to fend off any prolonged fallout amid a broader makeover, even theoretical, some suggested that a robust denouncement from party leaders could go a long way. "It's not going to eliminate it, because Biden is the president of the United States," the Democratic pollster said. "But if Democrats ever hope to reinvent themselves in a post-Biden future, they're going to need to start by denouncing Biden now when it's hard, not in the future, when it'll be easier."

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An anonymous collector paid $185 million for the work overnight Wednesday, achieving a record price for the artist and a surrealist painter, according to Christie’s auction house. The previous record for a Magritte painting was $121 million set at Sotheby’s in March 2022. Magritte’s Empire of Light 1954 which sold for a world record A$185 million. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo Its near-identical sister is on rare show in Australia at the Art Gallery of NSW, a highlight of its summer blockbuster. The impressive oil is on loan from the Menil Collection in Houston, one of 117 works in the most comprehensive exhibition of the Belgian artist’s paintings ever seen in Australia. Similar in perspective and size, the two paintings differ in the silhouette of trees and another tiny detail – on close inspection the Australian version features a darkened boulder in the foreground. “As he often did, Magritte secreted details in the shadows that don’t show up in reproduction,” says Nicholas Chambers, curator of the Magritte retrospective. Magritte’s The Dominion of Light, 1954, on show at the Art Gallery of NSW. Credit: Paul Hester “In the Menil Collection work at the gallery, for example, a boulder sits in the absolute foreground, barely discernible in the darkness and standing witness to the uncanny scene.” Like Claude Monet, who painted haystacks multiple times across times of day, seasons and weather conditions, Magritte used the same composition of a lamplit urban house to paradoxically blend night and day, shadow and light. He painted 27 versions in his Empire of Light series, 10 of which were on paper. The series inspired a scene in The Exorcist in which Father Merrin arrives at the MacNeil family’s house, the film’s director William Friedkin revealed in 2003. Geoffrey Smith, chair of the auction house Smith & Singer, said the version on display in NSW was as “equally magnificent” as the painting that sold. “What is so fascinating about this composition, and why it’s so compelling, is that it captures this seemingly impossible collision between day and night. “We don’t think there is any difference on first look, but then you have the blue sky of daylight and in the foreground the darkened house and trees illuminated by lamp-post light. Magritte is the equivalent of Jeffrey Smart – they so elegantly disrupt the world around us.” Smith attributed the auction result to the rarity of such works coming up for auction, much less on public display. The buyer’s identity has not been made public. “These works of art are so iconic and so rare, so few remain in private hands, so when a work of this stature and provenance comes to market it creates such excitement,” he said. “The opportunity comes once in a lifetime. “And here you have a work of art, an auction record for the surrealist painter, and Australians have another version, equally magnificent, on our doorstep. How well-timed is that?” Find out the next TV, streaming series and movies to add to your must-sees. Get The Watchlist delivered every Thursday .