Sydney        Our last day in Sydney was gorgeous with sun and a breeze.  A brief meeting with the chair of the Nature Conservancy was followed by a trek across the central business district to the offices of the teachers union of New South Wales.  There in a long conference room we met for several …

Sydney         We looked at the glass both half-empty and half-full as we slogged around the unseasonable warm day in Sydney to our appointed rounds.  First a train trip to the southwest suburb (incidentally neighborhoods here are called suburbs, so you never really know if you are in the city or out) of Bankston.  …