The Boomer Legacy

Survival of the richest: We spent our days counting our unearned income, in the comfort and safety of our own bunkers

Australia's wealthiest street, Wolseley Road Point Piper   (Sep 2012)

There was someone for everyone: The Sexual Revolution turned out to be a winners & losers end-game

Bollards at Circular Quay, in Sydney   (Oct 2013)

The week in heteropatriarchy: When this is all over, gender studies professors are going to have a hell of time explaining what happened (Valenti, 2017)

Supplement Warehouse on Sunnyholt Road, Blacktown   (Aug 2015)

Sub judice everywhere: It became necessary to destroy Justice in order to save the Legal System

Pursuant to s.8(e) of the NSW Court Suppression and Non-publication Orders Act 2010, along with the strict confidentiality provisions under s.462 of the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW), the reason(s) for including this scene in this project cannot be disclosed for legal reasons.   (Sep 2014)

Aloha Oe: Our way of life faded right before our eyes

Pacific themed vintage car, High Street Penrith   (Mar 2018)

Progressive cosmopolitans: Calvin Coolidge was right: we were in a New Era of prosperity

Bird cages outside the China Lane restaurant, at Angel Place in Sydney   (Oct 2013)

Boxing day specials: We gradually fortified our cities, one concrete block at a time

Anti vehicle-ramming barriers at George Street, Sydney   (Dec 2017)

Клином the revolution: Despite a century of progressive activism, the Whites were not beaten by the Red Wedge

Mega mall at Auburn   (May 2017)

A new world order: We had to reform the social contract to grow the number of billionaires

Torn up posters on Parramatta Road, Strathfield   (Jul 2014)

A few personal blow-outs: Success, optimism, power, glamour, excuses, lies

Corner of Chippendale lane, near Central   (Jul 2017)

The sun shone on the Supreme Leader: The inspection of State Food Waste & Offal Processing Plant #2193 inspired genuine patriots to spontaneously cheer and brandish flowers

Fast-food franchise at Old Canterbury Road, Hurlstone Park   (Oct 2015)

Building a narrative of hope: Imagine…

Strawberry Fields tourist attraction, Central Park NYC   (Oct 2017)

Virtue signalling: An army of loud and committed activists rose up. There was scarcely a minute to breathe. We talked, argued, wrote, blogged and took action on progressive social politics more than ever before

An air-filled waver during the Sydney Swans celebrations, at Sydney Town Hall   (Oct 2012)

I could have drunk a river: A couple of schooners, a case of Smirnoff Ice Double Black vodka, a few more shots at the Dragon Lounge, and I was yours

Abandoned refreshments near Gas Lane, in Millers Point   (Jan 2014)

Contumacious determination: As servants of the court, the rule of lawyers was to finesse reality to the point where outcomes matched expectations

Addison Road community centre, Marrickville   (Sep 2012)

Mission statement: We auctioned the Glory of the coming of the Lord

What was once an Anglican church, but became an open-plan dwelling, at Warrimoo in the Blue Mountains   (Jul 2011)

Foamy frappuccino in a sea of amber: Our restaurant and coffee habits were those of a thriving economy, not an anxious nation

Empty beer kegs outside the Abercrombie Hotel at Broadway   (Oct 2012)

Private education companies: Taxpayer funding of schools could not be selective, because in the marketplace of educational options, everyone agreed that governments had to support parental free-choice

The tennis courts of a GPS school in Stanmore   (Sep 2012)

Efficiency dividend: A land of opportunity where hard work and fair play guaranteed a better life; in which talented individuals from outside wealthy families were able to fulfil their true potential

Darling Point ferry wharf, Sydney   (Jan 2017)

Lotus, Porsha & Mersaydees: Part of Bogan Pride was to give your children the miss-spelled names of brands you hoped one day they would steal

Excavation of an ex-service station at Bullaburra in the Blue Mountains   (Feb 2011)

Cathedrals of parking: Neo-Jerusalem, Post-Amritsar. We sat for hours in cantilevered pews to ponder the imponderable

The north-western face of the Penrith Plaza car-park   (Oct 2010)

Bureaucracy was innate: The Board was my shepherd [✓]  Whose fixation on process and micromanagement [✓]  Circumscribed the very essence of my soul [✓]  Surely goodness and mercy followed me all the days of my life [✓]  Provided I placed a tick in every box [✗]

Harmony and reason at the Lithgow County-Council depot   (Apr 2012)

Status quo bias: We loved each other like it was the end of the world

Cockle Bay promenade, Darling Harbour   (Dec 2003)

Too much sport was not enough: We reduced the bread so we had to increase the circus

Penrith supporters watch their home team lose at Panthers Park   (Jul 2003)

Some kind of connection: Pets lifted our spirits and reminded us of who we really were

On the Parramatta ferry to Abbotsford   (Mar 2015)

A luminous symbolic affirmation of art & politics: Only a coterie of influential academics and curators could reveal hard-won truths to CHALLENGE the white-male privileged discourse, TRANSCEND perfunctory execution and EMBRACE the authentic spit and scribble of maternal-identifying wokeness, to address CONCEPTUAL nuances of inclusion, vibrant diversity, discrimination, identity, ownership, displacement, sexual violence, LGBTQIAP+ equality, pride, intersectionality, borders, boundaries, refugees, anti-imperialism and protean buoyant movement, and CELEBRATE the carefully stage-managed tableau-vivants of perspicacious activists, disabled auteurs, Blak luminaries, unkempt children, peripatetic friends and outré pets

Forbes Street studio in Woolloomooloo   (Oct 2012)

Ever mindful of cultural sensitivities: We tore down one wall and replaced it with thousands of others

Rear gate in a small lane a few blocks from the Auburn Gallipoli Mosque   (Jul 2012)

Peace in our time: Vietnam taught us that the only way to achieve world peace was by protest, compassion and learned helplessness

Palestinian demonstrators on George Street, Sydney CBD   (Aug 2014)

The well-stamped passport: Take another selfie and move on, criss-cross the planet to only find yourself

Group self-portraits at Sydney Cove   (Aug 2014)

Electric evanescence: All the bright lights in the world could not conceal the darkness

Luna Park Friday night rides   (Jan 2019)

Go hard or go home: The past was green, the present grey and the future black

Harbour Sands at Darling Harbour   (Jan 2017)

Nailing the lux vibe: Credit was easy since borrowers interest rates were almost zero; Everyone was flipping houses and betting on cryptocurrencies; Every month the stock-market soared to record new heights; There were hundreds of trillions of dollars of global central bank stimulus; Asset prices were at what appeared to be a permanently high plateau…

Living statue performer at Circular Quay   (Jul 2017)

A fit country for heroes to live in: With a place for everyone and everyone in their place

Homeless on Pitt Street Mall, Sydney   (May 2016)

Community standards : The landscape was punctuated by eye-popping advertisements for agile entrepreneurs

Dulwich Hill skate park   (Sep 2015)

Thought showers: In order to win-win incentivise our stakeholders, we had round-table meetings and did some blue-sky thinking to get our ducks in a row and facilitate a new cut-through paradigm

The Olympic Cauldron from the greatest Olympic Games in the 21st century   (Aug 2017)

White feather memes: You were never safe, for evidence of men's sexual and psychological violence against women could be found everywhere

Anti-rape posters in Faversham Street, Sydenham   (Sep 2012)

The authentic self: The best we could hope for was to become someone's pet

Town Hall arcade begging, Sydney   (Jul 2015)

Grand theft generations: With all the debt we created, we could comfortably retire to apartments in the sky

Jacksons Landing at Pyrmont in Sydney   (Jan 2013)

Quarter-inch block: Plenty of room for kids to play, thoughtful reflection and entertaining

Dumbarton street garden, McMahons Point   (Sep 2018)

Contraindications: We would throw large masses while we sang

Strike Bowling, King Street Wharf Darling Harbour   (Jan 2019)

Bench blanket bingo: Cover, cloak, camouflage, cape, napkin, shroud

Coalcliff station platform, South Coast NSW   (Apr 2012)

Keeping the Sixties alive: The memory of a beloved wife, the promise to a dead brother, the customers who only came to whisper and stare

Olympia milk-bar & hair salon at Parramatta Road, Annandale   (Jul 2016)

Break with the past: Artefacts of violence for a museum of the future

TV antenna remains at the 911 Memorial Museum   (Oct 2017)

Retrofitting diversity: The Sisyphean task of shedding our privileged milk-bottle whiteness

Bent Street, Lithgow.   (Apr 2012)

A story of the margins: The parking couldn't be any easier

Ex-Arnotts biscuit factory car park at North Strathfield   (Jun 2017)

Once I built a railroad: Delayed due to an operational issue… Cancelled due to mechanical problems… Postponed due to a train requiring mechanical repairs… No trains this weekend due to scheduled track-work… 35 minutes late due to passenger with a medical emergency… Some services have been delayed due to a person injured by a train on the north shore line… Rescheduled due to emergency track-work… Cancelled due to a staff availability issue… Rerouted due to urgent track equipment repairs… Late due to mechanical problems earlier on… Running late and out of timetable order due to a broken pantograph… Postponed due to urgent power supply repairs… This train will be sitting here due to operational reasons… Transport authorities have urged passengers allow additional travel time, listen to announcements and check indicator boards as stopping patterns may change at short notice… Will be delayed for a short time due to a fault on the train… Cancelled due to lightning strike at Penrith… No trains this weekend due to scheduled track-work… This service has been cancelled due to an electrical fault, passengers should disembark and transfer to the suburban service waiting at platform four… Rescheduled due to a bushfire at Medlow Bath… Suspended due to a derailing at Central… Delayed 211 minutes due to a slow moving freight train ahead… Buses may supplement some train services during the World Cup qualifying final… Late due to emergency signal equipment repairs at Auburn… Significant delays across the entire rail network after a fatality at Wentworthville… Trains are running at a reduced frequency across the network… No trains this weekend due to scheduled track-work… Trains will still be operating but stopping patterns may change at short notice… Extended delays and gaps in service will continue throughout the evening… Delays due to a customer disturbance at Parramatta earlier… Delays as a result of a number of unexpected incidents including a tree falling onto the tracks between St Leonards and Wollstonecraft, and a fire to sleepers at North Strathfield… There may be a short delay at Penrith while the rear carriage is checked for possible contamination… Extensive delays due to urgent signal equipment repairs caused by weather conditions at Zig Zag… Delayed due to emergency overhead wire repairs at Lidcome… Trains have been suspended between Lawson and Penrith due to a tree on the tracks near Linden… Delays to some services due to a tree blocking the track at Roseville earlier… Some delays of 30 minutes in both directions due to urgent track equipment repairs at Valley Heights earlier… Trains have been cancelled indefinitely due to emergency repairs to a broken rail line at Oatley. Replacement buses are being arranged but it may take a few hours… Delayed due to a person threatening self-harm at Kingswood earlier… Other incidents including multiple self-harm attempts and trespassers on the tracks at Doonside and Bellambi… Major delays due to a police shooting at Chatswood… No trains this weekend due to scheduled track-work… Delayed due to a police operation at Ashfield… Delayed by approximately 41 minutes due a person threatening self-harm at Lithgow… Major delays on all lines due to a fatality at Mortdale. Please consider postponing your journey or using alternative transport

Macdonaldtown rail viaduct   (Mar 1983)

$6.6 billion well spent: The media, top businessmen and party-members cheered. The IOC, AOCA, SOCOG, ASC and AIS conferred. Our Heroes puffed and flexed and skipped and hopped and leaped and kicked and twisted and splashed. Sharks were jumped. We paid

The endlessly gushing tubes of the fountain at Olympic Park   (Jan 2011)

Life under the occupation: We turned the Fragmented into the Harmonised by encouraging our staff to self-reflect and compile their own dossiers

Revolving doors at the ANZ bank building, in Castlereagh Street   (Aug 2014)

Without bias or agenda: Journalism is the pursuit of verifiable truth — it's an existential fight against conspiracy theories, fake news, voluble opinions, false balance, online bandwagons, talking points, against activists who claim to be in the truth business, but are actually in the point-of-view business (The Guardian, 2018)

State of Origin victory celebration for the NSW Blues at the Northern Broad-walk, Sydney Opera House   (Jul 2014)

Redefining perfection: You press the button, we do the rest (Eastman, 1888)

Laurie Daley and fans at SOH   (Jul 2014)

To provide authentic self-regulation: Your choice was very simple: be supportive or be silent

The statue of Bruce Lee prior to unveiling at the Kogarah Town Centre   (Mar 2011)

Allow plenty of additional travel time: Divided cities where employment and education were centralised, forcing the non-rich to commute for hours from the urban fringe

Trains on the T1 Western Line pass through Burwood Station   (Apr 2015)

Logic had nothing to do with oppression: (Steinem, 1983)

Egalitarian architecture at Wunulla Road in Point Piper   (Sep 2012)

The Wall is the Wall: (Trump, 2018)

Busking opposite Sydney Town Hall   (Jan 2018)

Strategic Hamlet: I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space (Shakespeare, 1603)

Wharf Terrace disabled-access elevator at Lincoln Crescent in Woolloomooloo   (Jan 2012)

Empire of the self: Bring distant points of interest within close range by the use of this machine

Empire State Building observation deck, NYC   (Oct 2017)

Love is Love: 7 817 247 agreed, 4 873 987 did not (Cth Marriage Survey, 2017)

Corner of Liberty and Trafalgar at Stanmore   (Nov 2017)

Put the person before the disability: Inclusiveness meant telling everyone how much you cared

Beneath the Western Distributor on Harris Street in Ultimo   (Jan 2013)

It's just a jump to the left: The great hope after the Berlin Wall was that liberal democracy would sweep the world

Pedestrian passageway at Potts Point   (Dec 2015)

Inflection eighty-two: The same music in different people's hands

Sixteenth floor, Harbourside Apartments   (Jan 2019)

Freedom behind the wheel: We streamed down packed motorways, clutching tickets to the road-trauma lottery

Tyre burn-outs in an abandoned housing development at Faulconbridge, in the Blue Mountains   (Dec 2012)

Staying on message: A bitter dialogue which reverberated for so long that it etched itself into the landscape

Christian propaganda (since removed) at Belmore Park Sydney Central   (Apr 2016)

Ghosts of the middle class: There was a time when these people were the future

Tombstones at Camperdown cemetery, Newtown   (Jun 2015)

Accidentally meta street: Why did the bureaucrat cross the road?… Because it thought it was a chicken. So why did the chicken cross the road?… Because it thought it was a bureaucrat

Infinite regressions at Croydon   (Sep 2016)

Laps around the sun: Quiet voices in a quiet room; The graceful movements of her hands; Warmth inside the circle of her white dress; A few more hours and we were gone

Turning circle outside Central Station, Sydney   (Dec 2017)

F2F heroes: Who was the faker and who was the fake?

Madame Tussauds Sydney, Darling Harbour   (Jan 2019)

Embrace your onco: The importance of corporatist sport just kept growing

Waratahs promotion at Olympic Park   (Aug 2017)

Find. Love. Sold: Golden sunshine down Rae street; a handful of unexpected rings; marry well and inherit big she said; and other practical things

Project Halo at Central Park in Sydney   (Apr 2014)

Terrorism had absolutely nothing to do with religion: 9 / 11 = 2977 + 60 000

Church spire beneath a flight path, at Rockdale in Sydney   (Dec 2013)

True deliverance make: Be sure your sins will find you out

Clothesline posts at Millers Point   (Aug 2016)

In this sign you shall conquer: Iota, Eta, Sigma: to die poor was a sin

South Head General Cemetery, at Vaucluse   (Nov 2016)

One-way journey: On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place (Yes, 1971)

Cruise liner at the Sydney Overseas Passenger Terminal   (Dec 2017)

We two formed a multitude: I still remember the first time I saw you

Abandoned shopping trolleys at Shoreline Drive in Rhodes   (Dec 2015)

The big day: The princess-cut engagement ring, the ruby drop-earrings, the fake tan, the lip augmentation injections, the brazillians, the bio-sculpture nails, the his 'n' hers best-friend tattoos, the effortlessly stylish top knot bun extension, the diamond and floral brocade corset, the lavender-coloured lingerie, the ivory patent leather classic ballerina flats, the stunning $20k bespoke wedding dress, the bridesmaids' hair extensions & wrist corsages & hand-printed banana yellow kaftans & daisy crowns & frangipani espadrilles, the HRT can coolers for the groomsmen, the calligraphy invitations on acid-free card, the RSVP tracker spreadsheet, the pink-lady cocktails, the picture-perfect Á-la-carte buffet, the organic canapés, the plates of pillowy gnocchi and fennel salad, the delicious hand-selected vegetables picked that morning from the chateau gardens, the Nepalese prayer-flag napkins, the online gift registry, the honeymoon-fund jars, the Feng Shui seating-plan, the white cane peacock chairs, the hand-cut white peonies, the scented bee-wax candles, the lead-crystal votive candle-holders, the polka-dotted ribbon for the mason jars, the bubble cyclone machines, the phone charging stations, the funky beats from the retro deejay, the flashing LED hula-hoops to get the guests dancing, the live social-media feeds, the #loveislove tweets, the Disney love songs, the whole-room selfies, the heart & ring & veil & cake & knife emoji texts, the A-frame of ceremony rules, the toy guns for the guest photo-booth, the PolAir hovering above the reception, the holistic wellness coaches, the tarot-card readings, the pack of wedding photojournalists, the wow-factor troupe of wedding drummers, the juggling flower-girl triplets, the honour-guard of kids from previous marriages, the surprise flash-mob doing a really gorgeous dance, the first and second and third and fourth dress-rehearsals, the last-minute bridesmaid replacements, the rhinestone encrusted complimentary selfie sticks, the Labrador ring-bearer, the two dozen pure white doves for the 3m tall vegan gluten-free celebration cake… But best of all, what about the hot pink ride!…

Wedding-hire 14 Seater H2 Stretch Hummer at Luna Park, Milsons Point   (Oct 2014)

With peace and glory ahead: Global prosperity was underpinned by the Special Relationship

Council kerbside clean-up, Darling Point   (Jan 2017)

Under the rainbow: We had a moral duty to support freedom, love, progress, social justice and basic human rights

Marriage Law Postal Survey posters outside the Imperial Hotel at Erskinville   (Sep 2017)

Capitalist idyll: The Colonel saw, the Colonel knew, the Colonel understood

Fast-food franchise hoarding at Parramatta Road, Five Dock   (Sep 2016)

A fortress of your art: Few noticed the post-modern irony of appropriating the design of the Naval Range-finding Tower MP-3 at Pleinmont

Solomon R Guggenheim museum, NYC   (Oct 2017)

Bewdy Bogues: It just wasn't summer without your feet in black Havaianas

Trolley pick-up point, at Darling Harbour in Sydney   (Apr 2014)

Trouble in Luvvyland: Decades of careful instruction about social progress failed to achieve the desired outcome

Apartment building at the top of View Street, Dunedin NZ   (Nov 2017)

Prophetic methodology: Remember, do not stop shooting even if u see women or kids — no mercy is Rule One (Haroon, 2016)

Lindt Café siege flower memorial at Martin Place, Sydney   (Dec 2014)

Discrimination positive: Half the population were archetypes, the other half stereotypes

Extended phenotypes at Addison Road in Marrickville   (Sep 2012)

Together at last: A journey of a thousand miles began with a single step

Newly-weds at Grand Central Station, NYC   (Oct 2017)

All in for open borders: Radical openness, liberalisation, pantribal sodality, anti-sovereignty, anti-colonialism, wanderlust, an international rules-based order, rootless cosmopolitanism, watch-lists, show-trials, riots

Confetti remnants of the 2012 Swans Victory Parade   (Oct 2012)

Raise the LED flag: The lights went down on Broadway

Times Square US Armed Forces recruiting station, NYC   (Oct 2017)

Private splendour: The poorest people with the most expensive phones; the brightest children in the most dilapidated schools; the best cars on the worst roads

Luxury cars gleam in the parking space behind a Kogarah real-estate agency   (Apr 2011)

Beneath the iron ceiling: Upward social mobility was bunk

Lord Sheffield Circuit at Penrith   (Apr 2017)

Hands up who wants to die: Live music, dead art, slurred karaoke & blinking poker-machines

Nick Cave from The Birthday Party at Sydney University Refectory   (Jan 1982)

The Tolerance Paradox: Positive Discrimination; Inclusivity Quotas; Smashing Bigotry; Gender Apartheid; Calling out Free Speech; The No Platform Policy; Unity in Diversity; Cohesion through Difference; Baiting the Backlash; Social Re-engineering; Consent Guardians; Mandated Sensitivity Training; Mischaracterising Doubt; Rooting Out Offence; Correcting History; Controlling Acceptable Thought; Equality before Justice; Accolades for the Oppressed; Criminalising Courtship; Perpetrator Spreadsheets; Parading malefactors in dunce-caps

Freethought Book Exchange (since demolished) at Regent Street Chippendale   (Apr 2014)

Reject love to live in a cage: All marriages were happy and fulfilling; we all grew up in homes where our parents treated each other with kindness and respect

Australia's wealthiest street, Wolseley Road Point Piper   (Sep 2012)

Free at last: A mortgage turned out to be a perfect forced-savings vehicle

Victoria Street terrace, Kings Cross   (Jul 2018)

Blade Runner now: Why wait?…

Times Square, NYC   (Oct 2017)

Cultural attrition: Civility did not last forever in a vacuum

Wall graffito, subsequently painted over, in a Pitt Street Lane near Town Hall   (Oct 2012)

Ever present eye: A magnificent landscape of photographers to record every moment

Anzac Day photographers, Park Street Sydney   (Apr 2018)

Crucify your mind: I really thought that love would save us all (Lennon, 1980)

The exterior of the Greek Orthodox church of Saint Peter & Paul (since repainted), at Petersham   (Sep 2012)

Vibrant isolation: Kindly use mobile phone — door knocking cannot be heard at back of house

Young Street terrace doorway (since painted over) at Annandale — the quotation is from a small placard on the door (since removed)   (Sep 2015)

Despite the sisterhood: It took a long time to move on from the Superwoman myth

W-H portrait session, Hurstville   (Jun 1991)

How did we ever get here?: An unending mausoleum of reinforced concrete, seen through windscreens streaked with tears

Ventilation funnels atop the Kogarah Railway Station car-park   (Apr 2011)

The healing-industrial-complex: A lifetime of small authentic moments stuffed with Jade Eggs, where we followed our bliss down the path to soulistic wellness

Sydney Olympic Park RSPCA stalls   (May 2018)

Molecular cogs: Cultural globalisation ensured we could enjoy exactly the same products and services anywhere in the world

Nike Savas installation at Macquarie Centre, Sydney   (Dec 2017)

Poly-dimensional facets: GDP versus infrastructure versus ecology versus quality-of-life versus unrestrained population growth

Darling Harbour under the express-way, Sydney   (Apr 2017)

Gone a million: The rich were always with us

Abandoned Rolls-Royce automobile at Hiles Street in Alexandria   (Jun 2015)