I’ve been reading a fair bit over the last few weeks about Alan Joyce and his golden parachute - a lavish severance package in the order of millions of dollars that he now gets to enjoy as he floats back to earth in retirement.

I want to tell you about a dinner conversation I had this week with my children regarding brain worms and the Holy Spirit. It’s possible you missed hearing about the surgery at Canberra Hospital of a woman who had gone to hospital with pains in her stomach, diarrhoea, a cough, a fever and experiencing forgetfulness and depression. The hospital did a brain scan, noticed something abnormal, then did another one and noticed it’d moved, so they decided to operate. To everyone in the operating theatres’ surprise, they pulled out a very active worm, about 8cm long.

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.