Chris during NAIDOC week

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books. 

— David McCullough, born in 1933

May your path ahead be filled with all the love, happiness 
and success you deserve
Happy Birthday ... Chris

PHOTIOS' NEW HIRE

Over at Macquarie Street lobby shop PremierState, Liberal operative Michael Photios continues his hiring binge with plenty of work rolling in after the return of Premier Gladys Berejiklian (and, for that matter, Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Canberra).

In late May, Photios’ poached Arts Minister Don Harwin’s deputy chief-of-staff, Mark Jones.

Now there’s another arrival at PremierState's MLC HQ, where the long client lists include everyone from AMP to infrastructure outfit Acciona and Justin Hemme’s Merivale empire.

Tax Cuts will boost spending frydenberg


'Unsustainable', 'unreliable': damning report for new Sydney hospital

The Sydney Morning Herald 

Third Sydney apartment block abandoned after safety issues

The Guardian 

Sydney's trains regularly fail to run on time during evening peak

Boris Johnson hints he'd dump UK ambassador, as Trump escalates row

Extremist groups pose more risks now

'No positive spin' on lack of affordable homes in NSW, advocates say


NAIDOC 2019:  

ABC

Yolngu elder David Gulpilil awarded the 2019 National NAIDOC Lifetime Achievement Award 

David Gulpilil single-handedly changed the way Indigenous Australians were represented on the big screen. Source: NITV News

The 66-year-old actor could not attend the awards ceremony because of an illness which he revealed was cancer.

The history of NAIDOC Week and what 'voice, treaty, truth' means to ...

NAIDOC Week - Wikipedia

NAIDOC Week is an Australian observance lasting from the first Sunday in July until the following Sunday. NAIDOC Week celebrates the history ...

Awaken artwork, by Kaurna and Narungga woman Charmaine Mumbulla. Charmaine cares deeply about the 2019 National NAIDOC theme, and about the celebration of Indigenous art and history Congratulations to all of these amazing brilliant humans winning

@naidocweek

national awards last night. You lead the way for our people and lift us to greater heights. Thank you

#NAIDOC2019 #NAIDOCAwards

Australian Aboriginal site gains World Heritage recognition Agence France Presse

Americans Shocked to Find their Rights Literally Vanish at U.S. Airports The American Conservative

FBI, ICE find state driver’s license photos are a gold mine for facial-recognition searches WaPo

Spotlight: The Dangers of Gang Databases and Gang Policing The Appeal

Facebook Libra

Banks steer clear of Facebook’s Libra project FT

Facebook’s Libra Must Be Regulated by Central Banks: PBOC Official Caixin Live

JOHN STOSSEL: It Wasn’t Force that Made America Great. It Was Freedom.


 Joseph de Maistre, revolution, and tradition – Catholic World Report.

Thomas Isham thinks Joseph de Maistre has real relevance for the 21st century. Maistre understood intuitively that the French Revolution was not an isolated historical catastrophe but the beginning of a “great epoch” that would endure for the foreseeable future. “In a word [he predicted], if there is no moral revolution in Europe, if the religious spirit is not reinforced in this part of the world, the social bond will dissolve,” with consequences of every sort that “will be felt far beyond the time of its explosion [in 1789], and the limits of its birthplace.” As Isham says, “Maistre saw it all coming:” more revolutions, more wars, more tyranny, and the murderous and nihilistic totalitarian state