The ABC has announced its cuts to save money after the government cuts to their funding.
The ABC has announced the axing of several Radio National programs, including regional and agriculture programs, 7:30 State editions on Friday nights as well as the scaling back of non-news TV production and TV sports broadcasting. The ABC will also close five – yes, five – regional radio stations in Gladstone, Port Augusta, Nowra, Morwell and Wagin. There will be a restructure of the foreign bureaux and the ABC will close Adelaide’s production unit, despite Christopher Pyne’s petition to save it. Lateline will now be broadcast on ABC News 24 at a set time and replayed on ABC1 later. Newcastle’s station has been re-labeled a “regional” station, cutting the funding it gets as a “metropolitan” station.
The ABC will also sell Outside Broadcast (OB) vans, as well as its Langley Place property in Artarmon in Sydney. The ABC will review the rest of its property portfolio. The Managing Director and senior executives will forego a pay rise and 400 jobs will be made redundant, which is about 10% of the ABC’s workforce.
However, there are some positives. The ABC will not change their emergency coverage for bushfires, floods and cyclones. With the money that the ABC re-invests from the savings, they will start a new regional division and a new digital network, as well as a new foreign bureau in Beirut, Lebanon.
The G20 continued over Sunday with leaders having a “robust” discussions with Putin, who left the G20 a little early, he says to catch up on sleep, but others say he was feeling hardly done by. Obama kept talking about climate change while Abbott kept talking about coal. However, the G20 is mainly about the economy, so they’ve promised to work harder to fight corporate tax evasion as well as try to get 100 million women into the work force. It was 42ºC in Brisbane over the weekend, making it very hot for some of the northern hemispheric heads of state, who are heading into winter.
China’s President, Xi Jinping arrived in Canberra shortly after the G20, he made a speech to Federal Parliament and signed a Declaration of Intent regarding the finalised Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
In the FTA, tariffs on dairy, beef and wine will decrease or be removed, mining tariffs will be gone in a decade and Australian service companies, like hotels, will have it much easier in China. Xi also visited Tasmania, making him the first Chinese head of state to visit every Australian state and territory. He met some school children – presumably the ones who wrote him a letter in Chinese – saw Tasmanian devils and went to Tasmania’s government house. His wife, Peng Liyuan, also visited a girls school on Sydney’s upper north shore and met some of the students and watched a Chinese lesson.
Narendra Modi, the Indian PM, also came to Canberra, but visited Sydney first, where he made a community address at Sydney Olympic Park. There were thousands there including some from Melbourne who took an overnight train to Sydney, dubbed the “Modi Express”. Modi spoke in Federal Parliament, where he suggested that making the members both houses sit through three speeches by Heads of State over the course of five days was Tony Abbott’s way of “shirtfronting” them.
Angela Merkel, Matteo Renzi and François Hollande also stayed in Australia a little longer, although they didn’t go to speak at Parliament House. Merkel visited a technology park in Sydney, Renzi visited Kellyville, a suburb in Sydney’s northwest, where an Italian company is working on part of a transport build, and Hollande hung around Sydney with the Governor General.
The Jacqui Lambie Saga continued this week with her being removed from her role as the PUP’s Deputy Senate Leader, and suspended her from attending party room meetings. The PUP has also removed references to her from their site, and she has removed references to them off hers. Lambie, along with the Motoring Enthusiasts’ Ricky Muir, voted with Labor, the Greens and Nick Xenophon against government changes to FOFA legislation. Lambie is looking at her options, because while she has every right to leave the party, should she pass away or be forced to quit, the casual vacancy will be filled by a PUP member and not by an independent or a member of Lambie’s alternative party, should she create one. This does make Senate more difficult at the moment, as it forces the government to negotiate with more people.
Julie Bishop was in New York this week in the blistering cold to chair the last meetings of the UN Security Council that Australia has the Presidency. The UNSC took a veiled sweep at nations like Australia that are restricting or stopping visa applications from the Ebola hot zone. Bishop called Ebola more than just a “health emergency” and that more needed to be done to help. The opposition was not impressed, suggesting that Australia says one thing internationally and does another thing domestically.
The ABC will lose almost 5% of its budget over the next five years, which is about $300 million dollars. The Opposition is telling people that Abbott lied during his election campaign, which he did, and money will also be taken from SBS, which will be allowed to play more advertising during prime time to help make up for the loss. Malcolm Turnbull has said that people shouldn’t be blaming the government, but some seem to think the government will be blamed. The ABC has suggested that they may have to close down foreign bureaux, cancel some programs and close a production unit based in South Australia, the latter making Christopher Pyne start a petition to stop the ABC from shutting the unit down. This week also saw rallies across the country with people coming to support the ABC – many fearing they will lose news coverage and entertainment.
The Overcoming Disadvantage report was released this week, suggesting that things are slowly improving for Indigenous Australians. Mortality is down, life expectancy is up, albeit not by much, and high school completion is also on the rise. However, there is an increase in the number of indigenous people incarcerated, which is being blamed on poor policy decisions, and experts want more investment in mental health services for indigenous people. Indigenous people have said that they should be involved in the decision-making in order to help the community.
The Australian government is receiving criticism this week for deciding that they would not take anymore refugees that registered in Indonesia, in the belief that they will stop people smugglers from sending people to Indonesia in the first place. Indonesia has said that they were not consulted and that this puts all the burden on them to help refugees, which they cannot do. Furthermore, an asylum seeker boat showed up on the island of Yap in Micronesia with refugees who wanted to settle in Australia. Micronesia has never had to deal with this and are now trying to figure out what to do with the 30-odd refugees.
Finally this week, Baby Gammy will likely get Australian citizenship, Westpac is closing accounts of money transfer businesses, making things difficult for workers who send money back to Australia, the Dutch have begun to remove the wreckage from MH17 and Peter Greste could be pardoned if it is in Egypt’s national interest, although DFAT is unaware of anything going on.
Tweet of the Week
Budget problems solved! Ray Hadley found more than $4 billion in our budget I didn't know was there. pic.twitter.com/BzwSGHIsAQ
An apartment in Shanghai, China, November 2007. It’s election night, and the ABC’s Election Coverage is on Australia Network. A family sits to eat dinner as election coverage, three hours ahead, starts to develop dramatically. “I’m sorry, I can’t just sit here anymore”, says the husband, “Is it ok if I take my dinner in front of the TV to see this?”. His wife nods in understanding as he gets up, grabs his plate and moves quickly into the lounge room to watch the 2007 Federal Election unfold…
…nice story, right? Ok, it’s not the best in the world, but its a true story – one about my family.
When my family lived in Hong Kong and Shanghai, we were able to watch Australia Network (originally ABC Asia-Pacific when we first moved). It may be touted as a “soft diplomacy” strategy to “showcase Australian values”, but it’s more than that, and the Australian Government hasn’t realised this. It’s not just about showing Australia off to the region, it’s also keeping Australian expatriates connected, and providing English-language news and entertainment in the region – something that helps expatriates of other nationalities as well as locals in Asia-Pacific nations.
Personally, Australia Network made me feel connected to Australia, and kept me informed on what was going on back home and also in the region. Australians are a rare breed of expatriate (expat) in some places, so unlike the American and British expats, news from back home is not covered as much in the media of the country you’re in, if at all, and usually it’s not in English. CNN and BBC World News are great, but they’re world-wide services with the entire globe to cover, and sometimes a huge political scandal that might be of interest to Australians overseas may not even be mentioned at all. Not only that, but both CNN and BBC World News are 24-hour news services, and lets face it, when you have a family with small children, 24-hour news is boring and tedious.
Think back to 9/11 when every Australian free-to-air TV network was on a 24-hour news cycle for about three days. I can remember (I was 7 at the time) my mum calling the ABC to ask when regular programming would return, and her being told it would be soon and that a lot of parents with young children had been calling in to ask the same question – because the 24-hour news was, by this point, replaying the World Trade Center buildings collapse for the 1000th time.
But back to Australia Network. Not only does it make an Australian expat feel connected to Australia, but it also provides English language news and programming for others too. For expats from other countries, Australia Network gives them news in English about the Asia-Pacific, and also provides them with English language entertainment, such as children’s programming (Play School, anyone?), current affairs, documentaries, comedies, dramas and all sorts of other shows – some of which are originally broadcast on Australia’s commercial networks (e.g. Mr. & Mrs. Murder – Channel 10; Packed to the Rafters – Channel 7; Insight – SBS; RPA – Channel 9). Broadcasting such diverse content, expats from other nations get entertainment, and here you can also stick your “soft diplomacy” in – because they get a look at Australian television shows and think that Australia is a nice place.
For locals in Asia-Pacific nations, Australia Network isn’t just a way for us to show them that Australia is a nice place and that they should trade, study or just have a holiday here, for some, it’s a way to get the facts about what is happening in their country. In China, Malaysia and Singapore, as well as other Asia-Pacific nations, where media is censored and rarely, if at all, critiques the government, Australia Network is way for the people to find out what they might not find elsewhere in local media. Example: In 2008, while in Shanghai, Facebook was suddenly blocked (this was pre-Beijing Olympics, so the Chinese were trying to be more open at the time) as was YouTube. Had it not been for the news on Australia Network or the ABC, I probably wouldn’t have known that there was unrest in Tibet at the time, and while the Chinese media mentioned it, it would have been downplayed, and very anti-Dalai Lama.
It’s not just the “soft diplomacy” strategy the government is cutting here, it’s an English language news and entertainment service for the region that’s keeping Australian expats feel connected back home, as well as giving expats from other countries a broadcaster with more relevant information for the region, as well as more diverse programming than CNN or BBC World News.
Author’s Note: I wrote this before the coup in Thailand – but the above also applies here. Australia Network was able to provide rolling coverage as martial law was declared and then more rolling coverage as the coup took place in the region. According to the Australia Network-watching Twitterati, the channel was one of the last foreign news providers to be blacked out by cable networks, despite the fact that the channel seemed to be the only one covering the situation in any detail at the time.
This week began with the Australian missionary arrested in North Korea being released after he apologised, although it was mainly because of his age. Also, both Tony Abbott and the government are warning Russia not to invade Crimea in Ukraine, so he does have some diplomacy skills. It also happens to be the 6-month mark for the Coalition government.
Qantas’ issues continue to divide the politicians, with debate over whether or not the government should get rid of the Qantas Sale Act, with one suggestion being that the international operations of Qantas remain Australian-owned, while having the domestic operations foreign-owned. Apparently there is no “Plan B” so to speak, despite rumours that Warren Truss had come up with an idea to have the government keep majority ownership of the airline, but increase the maximum number of shares a foreign shareholder can have. It may have been on the news, but apparently it was never an idea…oh well.
The other issue that arose early this week was the airline’s communications, with a message from Qantas on Monday saying the carbon tax had nothing to do with their problems. But on Wednesday, all of a sudden, the carbon tax was a factor – the Opposition were suspicious, and rightfully so. Labor also expressed concern that the virtually clean safety record of Qantas could be compromised, which then brings out the clip from Rain Man.
This week the Grattan Institute called for a change to health pricing, particularly surgery prices. They found huge differences in prices between hospitals, with one charging less than $10,000 for a specific surgery and another hospital doing the same surgery charging almost $25,000. Apparently it has something to do with the services given to you pre- and post-operation, so in some ways it adds up.
Still with health, it appears that Medicare is being defrauded by a few nasty people – apparently the vast majority of Australians are not rorting or misusing the system. But it is an easy system to defraud because people’s information is available at so many service providers.
The government is still trying to convince workers that they will be ok under the new government, but may have had a setback when the draft terms of reference for the Productivity Review Commission were leaked. They want the commission to see if penalty rates could be removed…I thought Work Choices was dead, buried and cremated.
Mattias Cormann, the Finance Minister, said that the issue of more women in cabinet was a “side issue” – it may not have caused so much fuss, if he hadn’t said it on International Women’s Day…Ooops.
What I’ve Been Reading/Watching/Listening etc
SBS2’s The Feed had fun spoofing 12 Years a Slave in the hope that the ABC might apologise for spelling their presenter’s name wrong, a là Solomon Northup and the New York Times.
So, Griffith will remain in Labor hands after the by-election last week, despite a lower than expected voter turnout. Who can blame them though? People in that area have had to go and vote up to five times in the last three years.
Meanwhile, the Government has decided to hold a Royal Commission into construction union corruption after the ABC and Fairfax broke the story. Speaking of unions, Tony Abbott seems to like blaming them for problems. This week Toyota announced they would stop manufacturing cars in Australia by 2017. This means that there will be no more car manufacturing in Australia after 2017. He says that the unions are to blame because they were demanding about work conditions, despite the fact that Toyota’s isn’t blaming them at all.
Tony Abbott has also been using his “some businesses close, others open” and “some jobs finish and others begin” lines again. While that line wasn’t commented on in Australia, an Australian CNN journalist threw some excellent shade by commenting “No word yet on what those new jobs will be”. There are fears however, because if the number of new jobs created is less than the number of jobs lost, there could be a recession here in Australia, which we avoided thanks to Kevin Rudd’s Labor government in 2007.
SPC Ardmona has been thrown a $22 million lifeline by the Victorian Government in a deal with the parent company Coca Cola Amatil. They’ll upgrade the plant with the money and hopeful keep some workers there. I don’t know if the Victorian Government were always going to give some money anyway, but they had promised to match the $25 million that SPC asked the Federal Government for, had they helped. Another issue is Qantas, Australia’s national airline. They would also like some money and some ownership legislation change. They’re saying that because they are not Holden, and they mainly want a change in their foreign ownership guidelines, the government should really consider helping them, and that argument appears to have worked.
Moving on, the Close the Gap Report shows that while there have been some gains within the indigenous population, particularly in decreasing infant mortality and the rise in Year 12 attainment, there are still some major issues to deal with, such as life expectancy and unemployment. The national unemployment rate also rose this month, which was expected but there are disagreements over who or what is to blame.
On to international matters, the foreign minister Julie Bishop has been in Fiji with delegates from the Pacific Forum in the hopes that once free and fair elections are held in Fiji later this year, the nation can rejoin the forum. Bishop says that she hopes to increase to trade between Australia and Fiji. Of more concern however, is that when the Americans come to Indonesia in the next week, the Indonesian Foreign Minister has said he will be talking to them about Australia’s actions in Operation Sovereign Borders. Oh dear.
Tweet of the Week
Juanita Phillips, the weekday newsreader for ABC News NSW has got Twitter (and a new news set)
Rehearsing with @Jeznews in our swish new ABC 7pm news studio. Tune in for the big reveal on Monday night … pic.twitter.com/llkvQW5UWz
A lesson in paying attention in Federal Parliament. Nickolas Varvaris, a Liberal MP, appeared to be asleep during a division of the house and he ended up voting with Labor, because no-one told him what had happened. Oops.
What I’ve been Reading/Watching/Listening
A Valentine’s themed Dumb Ways to Die message (see the original here)
The ABC Elections Site – with two (maybe three) state elections and multiple by-elections this year, not to mention some recent redistributions, you need to have a look.
I prefer to get my news from the ABC. Before you start yelling “latte-sipping leftie”, it has nothing to do with my political persuasion, which is none of your business anyway. I watch it because it isn’t full of sensationalist crap about how people are going to be murdered in their beds – that may be a bit extreme, but bear with me.
You see, somehow the salaries of the ABC got leaked to the Australian – who wrote this. It outlines who is paid the most at the ABC, with the highest-paid journalist being Tony Jones, who hosts Q&A. You can read it yourself and see who is paid what. The comments are pretty awful too, calling for the ABC to be privatised. Most media outlets don’t have to show what each specific employee is paid, except for the executives – which the ABC (a Government Business Enterprise or GBE) does, as well as all of the others.
Mark Scott has previously said that they don’t disclose specific salaries because the ABC is a public broadcaster and can’t match the commercial networks – this is true. Unlike the commercial networks, the ABC does not have advertising, and therefore lives off the $1 billion the government gives it – it may sound like a lot, but it has to pay for both news and entertainment production. It makes some extra off the ABC Shop, but as it says on the website: “All profits from the ABC Shop are reinvested into the ABC for program making”.
Let me put some of this into perspective. When Mark Scott said “Today, most private sector media executives looking down that list will not believe the salary rates of the ABC compared to what’s paid in commercial radio and television-land,” on Melbourne’s ABC Radio 774, he meant it.
Take the nightly news for example, Juanita Phillips, the anchor of ABC News NSW earns around $315,000 a year (2011-12) according to the Australian’s piece, while Chris Bath, who hosts 7 News Sydney, earns about $900,000 – at least that’s what news.com.au said.
Again, using the Australian and news.com.au, I’ll compare the female co-anchors of the breakfast shows. Virginia Trioli, of ABC News Breakfast is paid about $285,000, on Channel 7, Mel Doyle was reportedly being paid about $700,000 while on Sunrise and Lisa Wilkinson is reportedly being paid about $600,000 – but that is rumoured to go up considering the ratings of the Today Show.
Mark Scott also said on Melbourne radio that he was “concerned that this gives people like David Gyngell a list, a target, and it hurts the ABC’s ability to attract and retain talent“. I’m not surprised that he is concerned – now that they know how much Leigh Sales, Juanita Phillips or Mark Colvin earn yearly, if Channel 7 or 9 wanted to lure them, they could offer them quite a lot and they might decide to go. I hope they don’t and that they like their jobs enough to stay on the ABC.
The Australian also made some comments that, if you knew anything about the ABC, would make complete sense. They’ve started a conspiracy simply by saying, “More than $214m of the $453m national wage bill is spent at Ultimo in inner Sydney“. I hate to break it to the conspiracy theorists, but the ABC is headquartered in Sydney. It is where most national current affairs TV and radio programs are produced and presented, and where many heads of department have their offices.
It annoys me that the Australian has done this because contrary to what it believes, it isn’t in the public interest. It’s not really appropriate to ask someone their wage, and even less so to publish it so everyone else knows. General politeness lectures aside, the Australian shouldn’t have done it, even though they dislike the ABC.
This week has been mainly about the fires. Understandable, given the fires have toasted over 100,000 hectares and about 200 homes. But we did raise the debt ceiling and Greg Hunt used Wikipedia to get his facts.
First, on the weekend, Tony Abbott went with his volunteer brigade to help with back burning – his security detail were not entirely happy, given the fact that their job is to protect him but otherwise, he was doing his bit.
Second, we made international headlines. Yep, once a bushfire destroys a few hundred houses and toasts an area roughly the size of New York City, you’ve got yourself one of the top stories on CNN International, BBC, Al Jazeera and whatever other news services you can think of. Also making news is Tony Abbott’s views on climate change.
This is from Amanpour on CNN, talking to former CNN and current Sky News journalist Stan Grant.
Then there is the more recent issue of compensation. The Lithgow fire was unintentionally started by the defence force during an exercise involving live munitions. So, does the Department of Defence have to pay compensation? Not as yet, but obviously the key is dealing with the fires before playing the blame game.
There has also been anger from people especially in Winmalee and Springwood after the changes to eligibility for government assistance – now it is only if your house is burnt to the ground or severely damaged. People aren’t impressed, as the ABC found out – video here.
Also this week, the Danish Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary are in town, primarily for the Opera House celebrations. They’ve also been to a few schools and a hospital and it seems they may have fit in some time to visit the bushfire affected areas – which is nice.
Crown Prince Frederik & Crown Princess Mary met the Commissioner today at Winmalee for a tour of fire affected areas http://t.co/6EZaxnN8bi
It seems we’ve hit a post-election crash, after the high of the election, Tony Abbott being sworn in and the counts and re-counts of ballot papers.
This week Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop went to Indonesia to visit the President and talk about things, in particular, asylum seekers and people smuggling. Other than that, there really wasn’t much going on otherwise.
Except for the International Fleet Review.
The International Fleet Review celebrates 100 years since the first entry of Australian naval ships into Sydney Harbour. There were many Australian navy vessels as well as some from China, Papua New Guinea, Singapore and another 14 countries. The fireworks were pretty cool too.
Did I mention Prince Harry was in town?
This was off the BBCnews.com YouTube account, via the Guardian, who got it from ABC News 24 here.
Quote of the Week
“Never again should this country take action that jeopardises the food supply of such a friend and partner as Indonesia,” – Tony Abbott on the live cattle trade halt during the Labor Government.
Tweet of the Week
Apparently you if you are following me genius RT @okey_68: @KateEllisMP Who cares what you say Katie
Not only has he been hosting the nightly news on ABC for the past eight days, but he stood in on the breakfast show this weekend as well on ABC News 24. Jeremy Fernandez did really well this week and then he got photo bombed last night.
Sorry this is a tad late, but hey, we’re at the end, and we’ve find out who is leading our country…finally.
Wednesday saw the aftermath of the previous night’s Lateline on the ABC, when Roger Corbett, a Fairfax board member and member of the Liberal Party made some comments about Kevin Rudd – they weren’t nice, and the media got into a frenzy. Doug Cameron said that Corbett should “do the right thing and quit,” and Christine Milne doesn’t think it was very nice either.
The ad blackout began on Thursday morning at 12am, so there are no more political ads!
Speaking of which, the Coalition decided that this was when they should release their costings. They will decrease foreign aid by AU$4 billion and put that into infrastructure. They will scrap public transport plans and put more emphasis on roads. There is also that repetitive spiel of “cut the mining tax, cut the carbon tax, cut the waste” which drove me mental.
There was also a bit of a brouhaha in Sydney after there was a stabbing. One of the people involved is a refugee, and Scott Morrison, the Shadow Minister for Immigration decided that he could politicise it, which was probably not the best thing to do, and Tony Burke said that we should be able to make up our own minds.
The last day of the campaign, Friday. Everyone got a bit paranoid – Labor could lose 10-20 seats apparently. Tony Abbott plus one daughter spent time with some cute guide dogs – not that dogs should sway anyone, but the puppies were so cute!
Anyway, Kevin Rudd made one last push, saying that his government has plans and Tony Abbott doesn’t. He may have said something along the lines of “we’ll all be doomed” if Abbott does come to power. Tony Abbott thinks Kevin Rudd is getting desperate and scaring people and doesn’t have a plan – which was a bit mean.
So, as the election campaign continues, there has been some interesting developments….
First off, we’re getting special election-themed episodes of Gruen Nation and The Hamster Decides. Yay.
Gruen Nation is all about the advertising. The Hamster Decides is the Chaser’s show – enough said. I really quite enjoy these shows, and if you are a political junkie, Wednesday nights on the ABC is going to be the place to be.
Onward with the serious, important election campaign.
Wednesday saw Abbott promising to have a company tax of 1.5%. This has been called “magic pudding economics” by Labor. There was a lovely (i.e. entertaining) exchange on ABC 774 Melbourne radio when both Joe Hockey and Chris Bowen had a debate. You can listen to that here.
Tony has also been talking up his Paid Parental Leave Scheme. It involves paying women being paid in proportion to their salary. Simply put, a female executive (e.g. major CEO earning millions) is going to get more money when on maternity leave than a woman working as a teacher. In a rare move, the National Party is making clear that they are considering ‘crossing the floor’ (i.e. voting against) over this policy if the Coalition win government, as the National Party MPs usually represent country communities, where people don’t earn as much.
Kevin Rudd visited a school in Western Sydney, where some of the most marginal seats in the country exist. These are key to winning the election, and are usually held by the party in government. These are crucial seats and very important in elections these days.
We also had
Thursday saw some big news….
Peter Beattie, the former QLD Premier, is stepping into Federal politics to be the candidate for the electorate of Forde, after the original candidate pulled out or was replaced…One of the two anyway.
The unemployment rate is steady, so there was nothing really to comment on there, Joe Hockey did say that Labor has no plans to create jobs.
Thursday was also the end of Ramadan and at Eid celebrations, we saw politicians galore.
Joe Hockey (who has Palestinian heritage), Jason Clare (Home Affairs Minister), Bob Carr (Foreign Minister) and Tony Burke (Immigration Minister) all showed up at various events, most in Western Sydney.
Friday saw the play of the ‘underdog card’ on Kevin Rudd’s side.
With the News Corp Australia CEO quitting, Rudd had a go at their papers again, taking a swipe at Murdoch as well. With a higher GST under Tony, Kevin says, Vegemite will cost more.
Tony brought up the Insulation scandal again, to which he says ‘it makes you cry’. He promised a judicial inquiry to see just how Kevin screwed up. I think he may have just implied (at least to some) that Kev is as corrupt as NSW Labor. Thanks Tony. He’s scared I think, given that several Liberal-held seats are 50/50 in two-party preferred in QLD, especially after Beattie was called in.
Meanwhile, on the “Wombat Trail”, as it’s called, the Nationals’ leader Warren Truss has been going around country towns and regions campaigning. Their results in elections have been declining, but they think their numbers will be better this year. They’re also hoping to get the seat of Page this year, which is held by Labor.
Well, I’ll leave you to enjoy the weekend, and I’ll summarise the week in the next day or two..
Kara L 