So after judicial talks, number crunching, and strategic plans, I can confirm we are moving the Wang-Fitzpatrick Family Consortium from Cairns to Melbourne city, Victoria; with all of it done and dusted, and with us there being active Melbournian city folk by 1 February 2017. I still will take the Nissan Navara...the Honda will go by train and the Nissan will be driven. Now the details ...place, work etc can be worked out... This week is the first holiday I've had for 40 years when I haven't been trying to write or finish off books or find other jobs etc so it has been a great personal respite and I have had the opportunity to catch up with a lot of Star Trek shows. Series One is the best. So this will be Our Last Wet Season in Cairns. To me, that is a very good thing. None of us have ever lived in Melbourne so it will be interesting for all of us in the same and yet still varying ways. Jaiyo!

I recall being interviewed on radio when I was announcing a million dollar palliative care funding increase enabling the setting up of Gordonvale Hospital and the radio journalist asked "And so just how long have dying people been persecuted until this announcement?" and my response was "What? Go fuck yourself, you retard. This is a really good thing, a real achievement, and, as a faceless bureaucrat, I did it! What the fuck have you ever done?" Never got to air...but the place went ahead in leaps and bounds. From what I hear, it's still doing damn good work.

Never much of a media doyen, myself.

Amazing, the American Media, and American Journalists, themselves, saying they have personal and professional integrity. We live in remarkable times.

Bob Dylan - "All The Way (Audio)"

Having a great holiday on my favourite spot on my favourite lounge in this favourite home...basically doing nothing, and loving it. Which is your favourite of the 4 Alien films...Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection? My favourite is Aliens with Sigourney Weaver at her most intense, and with James Cameron as Directoor, and with the guy who plays Corporal Hicks. He's Great and is a good male counterpoint to Sigourneys great timeless self-empowered female character creation of Ripley.

Sergeant Apone, with his crew of Colonial Marines deep in the heart of Alien territory...Apone: "It's hot as hell in here!" Hudson: "Yeah, but it's a dry heat.." Apone: "Shut up!". "I don't want any live firing of weapons in here!" "What are supposed to use, harsh language?"

For sale sign for December 2016: 2015 Pure White Nissan Navara Dual Cab 4x4 CR Turbo Diesel 2.5 ute, Nissan tonneau cover, dash mat, foot mats, rubber tray mat, 4 cup holders, Nissan chrome sports bar, left and right Nissan wind/rain shields, Nissan Snorkel, disc brakes, ABS, 6 stack CD, steel bullbar, more than ample bewildering lights...Lightforce Spot and Flood (adjustable spot/flood beams) + 40 LED Spot and Flood, Nissan tow bar, Steel bike rack fitting (3 bicycles), alloy sidesteps, alloy 16" Nissan wheels, blue tooth, $1000 Volvo electronic rust control unit, 4 ashtrays, a real cigarette lighter, twin strong batteries...travelled: 9,500km...the last and best of the impeccable 1998-2015 D22 line.

For sale sign for December 2016: 
2015 Pure White Nissan Navara Dual Cab 4x4 CR Turbo Diesel 2.5 ute, Nissan tonneau cover, dash mat, foot mats, rubber tray mat, Nissan chrome sports bar, left and right Nissan wind/rain shields, Nissan Snorkel, disc brakes, ABS, 6 stack CD, steel bullbar, more than ample bewildering lights...Lightforce Spot and Flood (adjustable spot/flood beams) + 40 LED Spot and Flood, Nissan tow bar, Steel bike rack fitting (3 bicycles), alloy sidesteps, alloy 16" Nissan wheels, blue tooth, $1000 Volvo electronic rust control unit, 4 ashtrays, a real cigarette lighter, twin strong batteries...travelled: 9,500km...the last and best of the impeccable 1998-2015 D22 line.

The cost of renting in Beijing is 123% of the person's usual salary per month.