MichaelCouttsTrotter

Secretary NSW Treasury

[Murat Dizdar @dizdarm]

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.https://t.co/zwQub8dXaA

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

Everyone should wash their own dishes

[Marco Milani @MarcoMilani_IT]

@SteveStuWill Reduce the use of SMART goals by 75% by the next 2 months

[MichaelCouttsTrotter @MCT_DG]

@lizjurman @tanya_plibersek Thanks very much Liz.

[Chris Minns @ChrisMinnsMP]

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.

[The Australia Today @TheAusToday]

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

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Kurt Vonnegut's 8 rules for writing that I think everyone should consider:
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1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.⁣
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2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.⁣
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3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.⁣
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4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.⁣
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5. Start as close to the end as possible.⁣
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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.⁣
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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.⁣
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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.⁣

[MichaelCouttsTrotter @MCT_DG]

@GethinUnlocks Great to meet you in person @GethinUnlocks. Wish I could carry off a waistcoat as well as you! All the best with your work in the UK and here to help people change so they don’t return to prison.

[MichaelCouttsTrotter @MCT_DG]

Vale Ron Peno. Thank you for decades of joy and more than a few hobnob days. #ronpeno

[Daniel Storey @danielstorey85]

No spoilers, but this is the cleverest football advert I've ever seen.

[Dr Rachel Claire Morris, Shadow Secretary of Snark @5By5Creativity]

I’ve learned that there’s a Baby Viking Summer Camp, and I have questions and also may become obsessed.

[MichaelCouttsTrotter @MCT_DG]

@tanya_plibersek (Pretty sure it’s the other way around.) Home at a decent hour you two!

[NSW Police Force @nswpolice]

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.

[9News Sydney @9NewsSyd]

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

[MichaelCouttsTrotter @MCT_DG]

As you do….

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

JFK asks his Mother (after Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962) not to contact Nikita Khrushchev again without consulting him first:

[MichaelCouttsTrotter @MCT_DG]

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.

[Chris Minns @ChrisMinnsMP]

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.

[Chris Minns @ChrisMinnsMP]

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.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

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.