.Forget about six degrees of separation. If you are a Labor mate, it takes just three degrees to be linked to everyone else. If you throw in property speculation, the odds are even shorter.Take, for instance, the sale of two boutique beachside apartments on Mons Avenue, Maroubra.In 2002 the state Treasurer, Eric Roozendaal, was the general-secretary of the NSW Labor Party. His sidekick was Mark Arbib, now a powerful senator and minister in Kevin Rudd's inner sanctum. Each bought an upmarket Maroubra flat, a block from the beach, before construction was finished. Parliament was told each paid a discounted price. The seller was a company controlled by a generous Labor donor and property developer, Brian Boyd, 60, whose shareholding in his flagship company, Payce Consolidated, is estimated to be worth $61 million..... Given he has been a wheeler-dealer extraordinaire over the years, it may have slipped Obeid's mind that shortly before he became an MP, his company parted with $2 million to buy an industrial site on Canterbury Road, Bankstown, from Boyd's company. And while Arbib and Roozendaal were finalising their purchases with Boyd's company, Telmet Ventures, Telmet was successfully lobbying the Labor-controlled Strathfield council to rezone contaminated land at Homebush West. Telmet, which bought part of the site from State Rail, is planning to build up to 1000 apartments there.....Boyd has also been a long-time developer in and around the Olympic Park precinct. The connections don't stop there. Brian Boyd's lawyer is Mark Morgan. Morgan is a director of several Boyd companies and he turned up as a shareholder in a company owned by Eddie Obeid's son, Moses. Streetscape Projects sells multipurpose street poles with street lights, banners and security cameras. Despite coming last in a tender assessment by council officers in 1999, Streetscape was awarded a contract to supply Smartpoles to the City of Sydney, run by then lord mayor Frank Sartor.....” Read more.