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Today I've been voyaging through my own past. I've been asked for bits and pieces of myself and, in filling those requests I found myself looking at my last two years.

I've been wondering why I was easily depressed. Now it's obvious. I've lost six relatives (two close), had a major illness (and am still recovering from it, though I did finish the last of my megacortisone last week, so hopefully the end is near) and have had entirely unpredictable work. There have been as many good things as bad, but some of the bad is of a lifechanging variety.

July is a new year, I've decided. I'm allowed to be miserable since I've earned that right, but I'm also allowed to be happy. I'd start immediately, but I rather suspect that happiness is hard to find the day before a colonoscopy.

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Current legislation in Canberra includes this. I know I've said it before, but that was two years ago and it bears repeating.

PS The first sentence of the legislative history is wrong, quite wrong. The question is whether I have it in me to write a pedantic historic note to the Department of the Attorney-General.

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I'm going to do some work soon, I promise. It's just that I couldn't resist finding out what other Canberra Legislation predated the legislative existence of Canberra. As well as the sad remnants of the Magna Carta, we rejoice in:

Royal Marriages Act 1772 12 Geo 3 c 11, with the explanatory heading "An Act for the better regulating the future marriages of the Royal Family" (we are a hotbed of potential royal marriages, here, and very good at recommending how non-Canberra royals should marry, obviously);

Bill of Rights 1688 1 Will and Mary sess 2 c 2;

and

Act of Settlement 1700 12 and 13 Will 3 c 2.

I should make witty comments about all the legislation, especially since it's still extant, but it's getting late and I have a bunch of work I've been avoiding all day. Anyhow, that's the sum total of the pre-1788 legislation that's survived here.