The Harbour City welcomed the world to the Olympics with confidence and elan, yet where is that spirit today? Gone, I would argue, done in by regulations, nanny-state scolds and joyless neo-wowsers who have done their worst to paint a  technicolour town in officially approved monochrome

From insomnia to revelation! Rather than lament my chronic sleeplessness, I have learned to draw joy from Sydney's early light. The dawn here is nothing less than a gift—a gift whose ingredients I have not encountered anywhere else