James Packer might even send a birthday card after mum Ros Packer got a gong.

CBD's favourite Reserve Bank governor of all time, Glenn 'Chill Out' Stevens also gets a gong ahead of his big exit.

Will we ever get another RBA governor who could sit there straight-faced and say in response to a question about the cash rate: "We've got Christmas. We should just chill out, come back and see what the data says."

Or accuse the markets of "dropping their bundle" when markets tanked earlier this year.

Former Orica chairman and CSIRO board member, Peter Duncan, also gets recognised for his "distinguished service" to business and the community.

Julian Knights, one of the founders of private equity group Ironbridge, also got gonged for his philanthropic and financial work.

CBD remembers the former Sydney Dance Company chairman providing some particularly insightful comments about the debt-fuelled private equity boom and subsequent credit bust.

"This was really a steep learning curve for those banks," said Knights. Stealing a phrase from former prime minister Paul Keating, he pondered: "Maybe it was the recession in the banking markets that we had to have."

And so what if it nearly took the global economy back to the stone age.

The Hon Cheryl Edwards also got recognised for her services as a West Australian MP "to the law and to the environment".

CBD assumes the latter refers to her role as Gina Rinehart's mouthpiece at Hancock Prospecting and more recently as chair of the ailing Atlas Iron.

Citizen McIvor 

The career of former Gold Coast high flyer, Mark McIvor, is not yet officially over despite bankruptcy and a lifetime ban from the financial services industry over the collapse of Equititrust.

This week, ASIC said the Administrative Appeals Tribunal has rejected McIvor's application for a "stay" on the life ban while he appeals against the decision.

It seems his application to the AAT had a few deficiencies – which is not a surprise for the man who ran Equititrust into the ground leaving a $200 million hole, and many retirees without a nest egg.

The AAT said McIvor had not made an affidavit "as to the matters in controversy".

The AAT also found that McIvor had evaded the serving of ASIC's banning order despite his legal team being informed that he was required to do so.

Announcing his original ban last year, ASIC said he "is banned from providing any financial services on the basis that he had contravened a financial services law and was not of good fame or character to provide financial services. His conduct involved breaches of the financial services legislation, which were considered to be very serious, repetitive, prolonged and dishonest."

His transgressions include signing 28 board meeting minutes, from meetings that never were.

CBD can also report he was not nice to his mother.

She was forced to sell her home by receivers despite a Brisbane Supreme Court finding that her son had coerced her into signing massive mortgages over the home to benefit his business.

She might be a little alarmed to discover her son is now a "citizens advocate", according to a Linkedin profile in his name. The profile also referred to his current vocation as "Entrepreneur @ The Mutual Australian".

CBD found a reference to The Mutual Australian (TMA) at the web site for Mi Citizens Union which describes TMA thus: "Deep consideration of a strategy to respond to the emergence of the major bank cartel post GFC has resulted in the company believing that there is a need for community investment banking capacity co-owned by the regional communities they serve.

"Foundational to this concept is the establishment of a not for profit trust called The Mutual Australian. The trust's purpose will be to draw attention to the problem, and strategically guide implementation of a solution and manage the share of profit to the community."

CBD is sure ASIC is giving the enterprise an appropriate amount of attention.

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