Opening this week with Rama Gaind’s regular giveaway which will see two lucky PS News readers win copies of the highly appropriate book for the year: Stress Free: How To Thrive Under Pressure In Unprecedented Times by Richard Maloney.
To sign up to join Rama’s Army of winners, all the lucky readers needed to do was answer her quiz question and identify how many steps one needs to go through to build a stress-free dream team.
The answer was five and the two lucky winners whose correct entries managed to escape from the PS News Barrel of Booty were Jacquie S from Tasmania’s Department of Treasury and Finance and Matt H from Services Australia.
Congratulations Jacquie and Matt, your prize books will be on their way any day now, and a big thankyou to everyone who took part.
For another chance to join in the running for Rama’s next gratuitous giveaway all we have to do is call up her latest book giveaway at this PS News link and/or for an equally impressive win, her equally exciting current book giveaway at this link.
Good luck to everyone who does.
Bowled over
And while on the subject of winners, another winner has emerged to win PS News’s ‘Headline Of the Week Leadership Award’, more widely known as the HOWLA.
This award goes to the NSW Office of Sport for catching the public’s attention for bowling up a headline dripping with cleverness and hitting a home run.
Letting the world know that local cricket clubs will soon have a very expensive Centre of Excellence to play in, the Office let it be known who was responsible.
“NSW Government Stumps-Up Millions for Cricket’s Future Generations” was the way it was put, sufficiently stumpy to take out this week’s HOWLA!
How’s that?
The Gremlin Law
To the style that makes up the national Public Service’s highly regarded grasp of the English language now where a gremlin managed to squeeze past the career pedants and pedagogues punctiliously passing on the wisdom of the people’s prose.
Still in its ‘Beta’ age group, the Commonwealth’s new Style Manual is making headway with the help of interested personnel, the support for which the manual’s stylers expressed their gratitude in a recent email.
“Thank you to the eagle-eyed readers who have spotted typos in our content,” the beholden developers wrote.
“We’re getting on top of those. Both public Beta and being live have been a salutary lesson in Muphry’s law.”
Muphry?
Some law makers just never know when they’ve gone too far, do they Mr Murphy?
Shopped out
And finally another short, sharp and savvy commentary delivered to us by the redoubtable Philomena S of the Victorian Department of Health & Human Services, summing up the groans of many a compliant husband, boyfriend or son accompanying their favourite woman in the business of buying.
“When you’ve seen one shopping centre you’ve seen a mall”
Quite!
Till next week…
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