I'm so tired. It's past midnight and I am trying to get some email from work and I've had a problem with my password which allows me to connect to the work network from home. I've been on the phone to the help desk three times, lovely blokes, call me mate, but keep missing little details to make it work and I get locked out again. So now I am waiting ten minutes for it to reactivate and writing an overdue post.
So firstly, thanks to the senate for their good sense in removing Tony Abbott's authority on the RU486 veto and properly hand over responsibility to the Therapeutic Drugs Administration. And despite my innate hostility to Amanda Vanstone (she shouted at me down the phone some years ago about a business deal we were trying to stitch up), I am pleased that she and Helen Coonan demonstrated their support of the important issues. Despite the attempts of the pro-lifers (which Vanstone pointed out was a hijack of a term that referred to all of us) to try and convince us that the end of moral responsibility as we know it was nigh, the majority of the senate recognised that this was a medical issue not one about abortion, which is after all legal in Australia. On to the other house.
This week has been frantic - late nights, early mornings but I think I have acquitted myself well and have remembered that I quite like the people management side of work and coaching people to make decisions for themselves.
We have eaten reasonably well too and I have, at last, found the cable to connect my computer so you will see pictures from India soon (I know it was only 3 months ago).
OK, back to the report
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