Paul Wallbank

Different view at the SCG this week.

No Zarsoff Brothers I take it?

My first INXS encounter was when they were booed off the stage at Narrabeen's long lost Royal Antler by angry surfers waiting for Midnight Oil to come on. The funny thing was INXS were Northern Beaches local while the Oils weren't. Helluva a gig though.

Yep. Off to the Inner West

Last walk by the Harbour.

Australia quietly pays US another $800 million for AUKUS despite review The second payment, made in the second quarter of this year, takes Australia’s contribution to the US industrial base to $1.6 billion with no guarantee AUKUS will continue.

$800m here, $800m there … pretty soon you’re talking about real money! www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

Vale to Birmingham's finest

apart from the constant stream of cancelled buses and increasing public transport unreliablity , this alone is reason for moving off Sydney's Borth Shore.

It's the headline the nation needed

Goldman Sachs 'hires' AI coder CIO says technology will work alongside humans.

Devin, a new software developer at Goldman Sachs, is a tireless and dedicated worker.

They're so dedicated, in fact, that they will work 24x7, and not even be paid the six-figure salaries commanded by their teammates.

That’s because Devin is not a human at all.

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Social services department warned Tanya Plibersek she faces uphill battle amid ‘political polarisation’ Brief obtained under freedom of information laws shows new minister told of ‘increased risk of entrenched disadvantage’ in Australia

The Department of Social Security is worried Australians will think feeding and housing people via Centrelink payments is a luxury compared to Defence spending on submarines and bombs. Out-of-touch Canberra Bubble thinking strikes again www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Audit reveals the NRF has no financial strategy despite $436m in deals The Albanese's flagship reconstruction fund has been rebuked for lacking a formal financial strategy and for other lapses, though its governance is "largely sound".

Sigh. The NRF really are the new NBNCo - tens of millions spent with little, if anything, to show for it. A totally pointless organisation.

www.capitalbrief.com/article/audi...

#harshcritic

I should note The Suspension Bridge connecting Northbridge to North Sydney hasn't actually been a suspension bridge for about a century.

Midway on this afternoon's run. Under the Suspension Bridge.

The stretch between Hornsby and Ourimbah sees some spectacularly aggressive and bad driving.

The M1 between the Gold Coast and Brisbane has the most deranged drivers in Australia, which is a high bar when you consider the motoring standards on the Freeway between Sydney and Gosford, Sydney's M5, and the entire state of Victoria.

Last run around Middle Head

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It’s remarkable how many schemes will ‘fix’ Australia’s housing crisis. All of which seemed to be aimed at allowing private developers to build massive mega high rise blocks. Of course the government actually building public housing never enters the conversation.

Good heavens. As if Tony Blair's name wasn't besmirched enough.

So Keolis Downer are running ghost #sydneybuses services. A cute way of meeting contractual service obligations and another reminder of the liberal party ineptitude.

Beats spitting vile and venom to randoms online.

Last weeks by the bay.

OMFG. Did this mean you had to talk to people?

Only 50,000?

People manage it?

How good is Gladys Minns and his government in fixing the Sydney Busrs mess made by by his predecessors? It gets harder to tell tweedledum from Tweedledummer every day.

Governments should never have outsourced their key alert mechanisms to Facebook and Twitter. Sure, you didn't have to build it, but now you're at the whims of techbros.

(They also shouldn't send alerts all the damn time, which seems to be the practice in Texas. Alarm fatigue is real, too.)

Do we expect better from Gladys Minns?

Smooth brained privilege.