So sayeth international photographer Spencer Tunick, about the difficulty he has had in finding Sydneysiders to bare all as part of his international series of nude crowds in internationally recognised locations.

It would be a shame if Australia doesn't step up and drop its drawers here. Most young Australian males are usually only too happy to moon a passer by from the window of a moving car, and of course we have a great tradition of strippers at the cricket. What's gone on?

It would seem that the (Roman Catholic) Church has done more to institutionalize the sexual abuse of children than any other organization in history.

Another story in the Sydney Morning Herald about the ongoing scandal associated with two schools in New South Wales. One Catholic, one Anglican.

I haven't posted for ever and a day. Mea culpa. Facebook is killing personal blogs for long thoughts and also IMO makes Twitter kind of irrelevant for shorter ones (subject of a longer post I guess.)

Is this another infrastructure failure for the city?

"Taxpayers will fund compensation payments to disgruntled tenderers of the NSW government's $5 billion Sydney metro plan that has been officially shelved.

Premier Kristina Keneally would not disclose how many millions of dollars had been lost on the failed project but says private contractors will be compensated."

It is so depressing. I remember the hoopla about the Olympics and people who know me understand that I was a vocal opponent. So much time, money and effort in Sydney has been wasted by a whole series of successive leaders who are apparently incompetent.