Before I get down to business, I would like to retract my earlier comments to the effect that ‘Perth Meetup all suck dick’, in the understanding that I looked for them in the wrong part of the Brass Monkey the other night. We’ll get it together eventually.

Here are some pictures (finally) from New Zealand:

The rainy town of Dunedin, on South Island. The call it the ‘Land of the Long White Cloud’, but it really should be ‘Land of the Interminable Miasmatic Haze’. It actually brightened up a bit after a few days.

My messy bed at the backpackers.

The conference room, which was more than sufficient for my tiny audience.

Lake Te Anau, on a Sunday afternoon. Te Anau is a boring hole full of backpackers and people on jet skis, but the lake is nice enough.

Tuatapere, NZ’s ’sausage capital’. I nearly crashed the car when I saw this. It’s Mr Hanky, isn’t it?

And back in Sydney, with the Sunday anti-racism rally. I would have preferred an anti-bogan rally, but they went with the ’safe’ option ;)

Ooh, lunch time.