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Elias boys front page on smh.com.au today

Kate McClymont
August 3, 2009
THE owner of a floating male strip club has won the $15 million to $20 million tender for a big maritime development near the Sydney Fish Markets.

The Ports and Waterways Minister, Joe Tripodi, said on Friday that All Occasion Cruises was the successful tenderer to build an 18-berth marina for charter vessels, and a three- storey office building, function centre and cafe along the southern side of Blackwattle Bay, opposite Wentworth Park.

All Occasion Cruises is a $2 company, the sole director of which is Joe Elias, 42, the younger brother of the former footballer Benny Elias.

As well as running a fleet of party boats on Sydney Harbour, Mr Elias owns the raunchy Wild Boys Afloat, which features male strippers in G-strings performing for hens’ nights and the girls-night-out market.

Wild Boys Afloat’s main claim to fame was in 1999 when Brad Fittler, then captain of the Sydney Roosters rugby league team, was left in an incoherent state outside Glebe police station after the team had a night aboard a Wild Boys Afloat boat alongside a group of women out on a hens’ night.

Mr Elias’s other investments include shares in his brother Benny’s penny dreadful mining company Chameleon Mining. Other shareholders include the football supporter and porn king Con Ange, who is a friend of the former Balmain player.

All Occasion Cruises, which will have a 35-year-lease on the site, was preferred over seven other tenderers including the property developer, Lend Lease.

According to corporate documents, the headquarters for Mr Elias’s All Occasion Cruises is a run-down cottage in Hermitage Street, West Ryde, bought in 2002 for $350,000 by Mr Elias’s family company N. & B. Elias Holdings.

In 2004 Mr Elias’s company bought vacant land in Liverpool for $1.5 million from Hiltan, a company owned by Pat Sergi.

Mr Sergi, who was named in the Woodward royal commission as being involved with Robert Trimbole in the production and distribution of marijuana, and in laundering the proceeds, is a close friend of Mr Tripodi, and Hiltan has donated to Mr Tripodi’s election campaigns.

Mr Sergi and Mr Tripodi were shareholders in Westside Property Developments, which bought and sold government land, including Department of Housing property, while Mr Tripodi was an MP.

Mr Elias was overseas and not available for comment on his company’s successful tender.

Kym Lennox, the principal consultant to The Tipping Point Institute based in Hong Kong, said Mr Elias had hired his firm to prepare the documents for the tender. He said the cost of tendering had been a six-figure sum and Mr Elias had succeeded because as a charter-boat operator he understood the requirements.

A spokesman for Mr Tripodi said it was ‘‘a very competitive process’’ for the Blackwattle Bay precinct and All Occasion Cruises had been chosen because it met the requirements. He could not disclose the names of other tenderers but said the process had been overseen by independent probity auditors.