Sydney citizens had a last chance to see our Opera House up close yesterday, while grungy looking fences went around the perimeter for APEC big–wigs like George Bush and Vladamir Putin. The rabble proof fence went up and we were shut out for a whole week. It doesn’t matter that most Sydney people never go to the Opera House; we could if we wanted to. Anyway, The government gave us a holiday on Friday to get over the stress of traffic jams.

The most amazing part of the secure zone circus is the alarm siren broadcast through loudspeakers on high poles all over the Sydney. When I heard the test yesterday I had no idea what the weird woop woop was, or where it was coming from