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)…