It is a still in Sydney town, the trees show no movement, as I walk for the paper and a coffee on this Saturday morning. Mind you, it is sunny, so there’s that. No doubt the grid is being fed by households with subsidised rooftop solar panels and by the solar blots strewn across the…

Received a letter from the NSW government dated May 30, informing me that I had been included on the jury roll from June 2024 to June 2025. In a subsequent, hard-on-the-heels, letter dated June 4, I was told that I had been randomly selected for jury duty for a trial of 12 weeks in estimated…

Military minded Cats may be interested to hear I was at the War Memorial the other day in Canberra. A volunteer guide told me that an aboriginal man couldn’t enlist in the AIF in 1914 because of his ‘race’. I told him that I thought that was unlikely. I noted that aboriginal men (and women)…