Sam Crosby

Some news🚨 Honoured to be awarded the 2023 not-for-profit @FulbrightAUS scholarship. Supported by The Australian Scholarships Foundation. Heading to the 🇺🇸 at the end of the year to study prison reform and recidivism. 📸 @JoshCrawfo 🙏

Finally, and the clear winner was the Last Lion Trilogy by William Manchester (the final volume assisted by Paul Reid). Despite its length (~3000pages) you’ll be sad when it ends. Much like Caro, Manchester was a master storyteller and had an excellent story to work with.

2nd place (& it was a tight contest) goes Bending Adversity, Japan and the Art of Survival by David Pilling. A great history of Japan starting with Fukushima and then tracing back to the black ships. Well worth it for anyone even remotely interested in Japan.

My 2025 reading list, (and yes I’m running out of ideas how to pose with books.) Subject matter goes to prove that when you hit 40 you must choose between smoking meats or learning about WW2. I have clearly stuck by my choices.

NSW Housing Minister Rose Jackson continues to be asked about her use of ministerial drivers. I don't think the Coalition was expecting this answer though #nswpol

@Tallawanta G’day Pat Sorry if I came off as arrogant. I was really just trying to say that I think when these wind turbines ultimately get built they’ll end up being much much smaller and unobtrusive than people fear right now. Cheers

@SamPCrosby How dare you think the locals will just ignore the 300 #wind turbines like lemmings. Such arrogance. Regardless of my political position I’ve never seen a governing party try and stuff everything they touch, send us broke and now wreck the #Illawarra coastline.

The Opposition Leader needs to stop freelancing on defence and foreign policy and back the Government’s position when it comes to China - my take last night on @SharriMarkson @SkyNewsAust #auspol skynews.com.au/opinion/sharri…

@RoseBJackson: “I have too much corro” Also Rose: “I want to read and sign each and every letter” 🤦‍♂️ smh.com.au/politics/nsw/h…

So good! Well done @edwardcavanough !

The thing that has absolutely sent me about the Woolies CEO interview is he showed up in his dumb polyester polo shirt like he’s just an ordinary guy but he’s wearing a signet ring.

When you spend months on a report you wonder if anyone will read it. That’s why it was a thrill to meet the White House’s head of domestic policy Neera Tandern & brief her about the initiatives underway in prison reform. Thanks to @FulbrightAUS for the opportunity!

@john_macgowan @RoseBJackson Personally, and pretty much only for the comedic factor - I would love to see this happen.

Chief of Staff for @RoseBJackson being advertised on Seek, which means they've washed out of hack candidates and want something different... I'm different...

#1 for this year is Cleopatra. A brilliant history about a fascinating woman - and who doesn’t want to think some more about the Roman Empire?! @stacyschiff

#2 King, a life. This is the first bio of MLK in decades and had heaps of new stuff. A great work about an amazing person. @jonathaneig

My top pics for 2023 are here for your summer reading lists And yes I am wearing a tux in this photo. It was taken after 6pm. What am I, a farmer?