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Your Correspondent lives in the region of Australia that’s solely responsible for keeping the country out of recession. It’s often been described as “the power-house that drives the nation’s economy”. Pretty damned florid and impressive, eh? So I can’t help but wonder why it took three fucking months to get our phone connected.

Oh, there were excuses a-plenty: it rained for eight minutes; the sub-contractors didn’t approve of the site’s feng shui; someone’s dog ate someone’s car keys. There were messages to and from assorted toadies at Telstra. One of them — our Case Manager from Telstra’s “Centre for Customer Experience” or some such wank — had a great time leaving messages on my mobile phone with instructions on how to contact him and then making sure he was never there whenever I tried.

It could be worse. Women still die in childbirth here. I shit you not.

Anyway … now that we actually have phone and internet connections once more: Happy New Year to you.

Lots more to come and I’m sorry to say it won’t be pretty.

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