Ms TN is writing a review for tomorrow, organising various family things, sneezing (oh no!), answering emails and packing her bags for Canberra. In the meantime, good to see Julian Meyrick's report in today's Age on last week's preparatory meeting at Arts Victoria, in which all the Victorian Creative Australia participants got together for a sandwich and chinwag. I feel much the same as he does. "The results were hopefully a taste of things to come," says Meyrick. "There was no grandstanding. The tone was pragmatic, not ideological....I expected to hear different views. I didn't expect the degree of convergence between them, making agreement on key issues a real possibility."

Fingers crossed. And wish us all luck.