Secretary NSW Treasury
Australia
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MichaelCouttsTrotter retweeted
Applications are closing soon for the Homes NSW Youth Development Scholarships! Know a young person who could use a $1,000 boost to support education costs for textbooks, travel, tutoring & more? Applications close for high school students 5pm, 13 Feb 2026.nsw.gov.au/homes-nsw/scholar…
MichaelCouttsTrotter retweeted
Today, I delivered my condolence motion on the longest ever serving NSW Treasurer, Michael Egan.
And I’m honoured to have delivered it in the presence of his closest friends and family.
Vale Michael - your impact continues to be felt to this day.
MichaelCouttsTrotter retweeted
Tributes poured in as the community remembered an icon of multicultural Australia, Dr G.K. Harinath, who passed away recently leaving behind a legacy of service and excellence @Pallavi_Aus @EthnicLinkGuru @DrAmitSarwal @CrSameerPandey @Joseph_LaPosta @DipenRughani @mckayjodi1
MichaelCouttsTrotter retweeted
Kurt Vonnegut's 8 rules for writing that I think everyone should consider:
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
Vale Ron Peno. Thank you for decades of joy and more than a few hobnob days. #ronpeno
MichaelCouttsTrotter retweeted
No spoilers, but this is the cleverest football advert I've ever seen.
MichaelCouttsTrotter retweeted
I’ve learned that there’s a Baby Viking Summer Camp, and I have questions and also may become obsessed.
MichaelCouttsTrotter retweeted
The lights of @VividSydney will be switched off for one minute at 7.30pm tonight (Monday 12 June 2023), in honour of the victims involved in the fatal bus crash at Greta.
Ticketed events such as ‘Lightscape’, ‘Dark Spectrum’ and ‘Wild Lights’ will proceed as scheduled.
MichaelCouttsTrotter retweeted
For the first time in more than 50 years, platypus has returned to Royal National Park.
Five female platypus were released into the park this week, with four males set to follow later.
It comes in a bid to re-establish a genetically diverse population within NSW.
#9News
The 2023-24 NSW Budget will be handed down by the Treasurer, Daniel Mookhey, on 19 September 2023.
Budget bills must be introduced in the NSW Legislative Assembly so the Treasurer, a member of the Upper House, will make the short trip to that chamber to deliver the Budget.
MichaelCouttsTrotter retweeted
The stabbing of a Service NSW worker today in Sydney is horrifying.
The thoughts of our government and our state are with this worker and their family at what is no doubt a very difficult time.
To all the staff at Service NSW and those first responders on the scene - thank you.
MichaelCouttsTrotter retweeted
Tonight we remember the life and sacrifice of paramedic, Steven Tougher.
A life taken far too soon - and a life dedicated to serving others.
We hope this small gesture gives strength to all those who knew Steven and his 5,000-strong paramedic family.
MichaelCouttsTrotter retweeted
Six fundamental beliefs that bias our view of the world:
1. My experience is a reasonable reference.
2. I make correct assessments of the world.
3. I am good.
4. My group is a reasonable reference.
5. My group is good.
6. People's attributes (not context) shape outcomes.
Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A new paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias. doi.org/10.1177/174569162211…
MichaelCouttsTrotter retweeted
The COVID vaccines are overwhelmingly safe and effective - according to the science. I’ve had 4 doses of 3 different vaccines, 2 episodes of COVID (the disease), and will have the 5th dose in the next few weeks.
Has anyone asked Dr Karl from Triple J what his take is on the vaccine? Be interested to know as he seems very honest and trustworthy @DoctorKarl
