In the discussion on #Insiders this morning about @MathiasCormann and the OECD and planes, Trade Minister @birmo referred to @NStottDespoja's recent election to the "Committee For Elimination of Domestic Violence Against Women". That's not what it's called. 1/4 It's CEDAW. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. A small point, sure. But it's been interesting that nobody's picked it up, when imagine if he'd talked about Mr Cormann running for the OEBD? It'd be a giant gaffe. 2/4

Last night I went to see @SydneyTheatreCo's The Picture Of Dorian Grey. Am still registering what I aww on stage over two hours with no interval. Eryn Jean Norvill plays EVERY character. She is Dorian. She is Basil Hallward AND Lord Henry Wotton. 1/5 She is Sibyl Vane and her vengeful brother. She is onstage for two hours accompanied by four moving cameras projecting images on to multiple screens. Which also move. She changes costume. She attends dinner parties with seven versions of herself. 2/5

It's been a dark day at the ABC, half way through a year that began with colleagues working overtime to aid local communities through the bushfires and then doing the same under straitened circumstances during Covid-19. I've worked at News, Fairfax (old money) and the ABC and I've never seen people work into the night, do more with less and generally give a rats more than they do here. Even today, when people were receiving horrible shocks, I didn't hear of one person...