THE BUGLE’S VIEW

Last year, on a cloudy Monday afternoon in October, thousands of people turned up at North Bondi to catch a glimpse of Nedd Brockman.

They were there to cheer on the 23-year-old sparkie from Forbes in the last 200 metres of his 3,952 km, 47day run across Australia.

Once he’d finished, journalists peppered Brockmann with all sorts of questions. Did you ever think you wouldn’t finish? What’s the first thing you’ll do when you get home? How are the knees holding up?

ABS head of business indicators, Kate Lamb, actually pinned the relatively small overall growth of six per cent on the slowdown in hotel, cafe and restaurant spending, which will continue to normalise after the pandemic.

by Brendon Foye