In 1922, some four years before Ernest Hemingway published his first novel, his then wife Hadley was travelling on a train carrying a precious case filled with the aspiring writer’s latest work. The case was stolen, the work was lost, never to be recovered. Hemingway was not impressed.
As a state treasurer who has spent the last three years working to keep the NSW budget firmly in the black, I can relate. So too, I’m sure, can the federal treasurer, Josh Frydenberg.
