KILLING SYDNEY
At last, the cover reveal! Out Invasion Day next year! And here’s the pre-order link…. https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781760552589/killing-sydney/
National Trust trust
Delighted to announce my election to the twelve-person board of the NSW National Trust. I expect a steep learning curve and a LOT of fun! Here we all are, Dr Clive Lucas, Fenella Kernebone, John Richardson, Ian Stephenson and lots of others, all nicely socially
FUTUROPOLIS
FUTURE CITIES We tend to think of the future as being more of the same – bigger, faster, denser, more competititive. But maybe, just maybe, it’ll be more textured, more plural, more open and accepting. Maybe we’ll be just. tad wiser….here is a piece I
BACKFLIP OR SMART REBADGING?
So this started to interest me. Last Saturday, as news of a Powerhouse “backflip” began to proliferate across the headlines – neatly paving the way for Don Harwin’s readmission to Cabinet the following day – I wondered idly what had changed. Activist groups welcomed the
The tunnel, the statue, the plume and the blue warehou
https://www.smh.com.au/national/toppling-statues-won-t-be-enough-to-save-us-from-the-next-great-dying-20200625-p5566g.html
POWERHOUSE STEAMING DOWN
The other (city) end of the Parramatta Powerhouse catastrophe is every bit as destructive of precious public assets… https://www.smh.com.au/national/powerhouse-museum-will-run-out-of-puff-in-parramatta-20200618-p553yc.html
SOME SATURDAY
So we scarpered on down to the farm to collect the fridge. That sounds so simple and would have been, had not the sparky texted as we were sitting in the drenching Friday arvo rush-hour out of Sydney to say he’d be there the next
Poor Old Parra
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/parramatta-should-be-our-jewel-but-we-ve-trashed-its-treasures-20200611-p551so.html
SWIM LIKE SEAWEED
Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water…Pandemic Lessons in Patience #65. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/take-a-number-the-rules-of-synchronised-socially-distanced-swimming-20200604-p54zo1.html
Wound willy nilly into a fat tail event
What a punishment, egad. A forced morning meander through the Sydney autumn. Back in March when E, forcibly exiled from her beloved film studies in the UK, squeaked back in under the closing portcullis, we had little choice but to quarantine at the farm. (The