I heard someone say once that every system is perfectly designed to give you the results it gets. The Robodebt Royal Commission report was handed down a week ago, and I’ve had a thumb through the recommendations.

The weirdest thing happened this week in Australia and England. Thousands of people on social media, every sports commentator in each respective country and, indeed, both Prime Ministers found themselves having a sharp disagreement over theology. 

Winning Games, a Hasbro subsidiary, has this week announced that they’ll be releasing a Canberra version of Monopoly. They are presently open to suggestions about what goes on there.

I imagine they’ll go the boring route and major on the institutions (the War Memorial, Questacon, the NGA, etc.) but all of that is too obvious for locals. The figurines should be a Kingsley’s chip, a parked car with two wheels on the curb, an APS lanyard, a bus stop, and a hailstone.

I was saddened this morning to wake to the news about the discovery of the Oceangate submersible near the site of the Titanic and its catastrophic implosion which killed everyone on board. I, like a lot of people, was hoping for an Apollo 13 kind of situation where, against impossible odds, the crew would be saved by a small group of plucky scientists.