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A short tale of a Citizens' Assembly

I chickened out. Sitting in my hotel room a few hours before the event, I reread the talk I was to give at the launch of the permanent Citizens’ Assembly being established in Western Sydney and I realised it was too long, that I would go over time.

I ummed and arred about which sections to hack out, and one of those I ended up scribbling all over with a…