Spent Friday roaming around Coffs Harbour with a visiting Government Minister. It was very different from what used to happen in my Welsh Office days. For one thing, I can't recall any British Minister greeting people with a cheery "hi, guys". Also, I never worked for a Minister who used to be a shearers' cook, even in Wales, or who held a pilot's licence. It was rather refreshing.
One thing was familiar. Her staff seemed to be just as firmly glued to their mobiles and just as harassed as I remember being so I must have made some progress. On the other hand, later this evening I will carefully pack five shirts, five pairs of pants and five pairs of socks (and a few other things of course)in preparation to spend next week in Canberra, a process that does seems horribly familiar even after all this time. It's Budget Day on Tuesday, against the background of a leadership dispute between the Treasurer and the Prime Minister. Funny, but that's ringing bells, too...
Still, I don't have to go every week and I consoled myself this afternoon by registering the domain for the forthcoming podcast. Watch this space.
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