The SMH has an intriguing story on the Governor-General’s office trimming its sails and dumping plans to expand Government House here in Canberra with a (frankly much needed) function room.
As the story ends with a laundry list of the new GG’s wonderful modernising ways, and doesn’t mention her habit of leaving expensive fighter jets circling over Bungendore when she turns up late to major functions, one can reasonably assume the story was spoon fed to Kerry-Anne Walsh by someone in Yarralumla.
It seems passing strange that when Governments across this wide brown land are going on the biggest debt-fuelled spending binge in our national history (to fix the previous private sector debt-fuelled spending binge no less) the GGs office alone is tightening its belt (and cancelling work that no doubt hard pressed working families were looking forward to completing).