There is a wide walkway between the Accenture building and the harbour. This is a public access walkway. It's the fastest way to reach the buses which will take you away from Pyrmont where there is little to hang around for other than some offices, and the Star City Casino if you're into that kind of thing which I'm not. There are other ways of getting through there but they're a few hundred metres longer.

When I originally posted this image I was a tad narked that a catering company in the building to the side (Doltone House) felt free to appropriate this walkway for itself for a few days without so much as a by-your-leave. (Well OK, they were probably given permission by a faceless bureaucrat at the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, it was "only" the several hundred people who were affected by the closure who had no say.) I've hacked out most of the original commentary about that because in the overall scheme of things it's a trivial irritation. And also because it wasn't even the actual appropriation that was niggling at me as much as the way some people / organisations feel an entitlement to impose themselves on other people.

On the same day there was a report of yet another example of the Queensland Police's jackbooted approach when it comes to such impositions, arresting a journalist who received a copy of a Facebook picture that someone else had obtained by "unauthorised" (but not necessarily illegal, since it's a grey area) means. His iPad was appropriated by the uniformed thugs involved on the basis that it contained "tainted material". So if I understand this correctly, the police (in Queensland at least) now feel that they have the right to arrest a journalist, appropriate his or her notes (which may contain, oh, I don't know, the sources of allegations of police corruption), and then "unarrest" the journalist. (As a side note, that one had me wondering exactly who knew whom to get that "stolen" photograph investigated, considering that in my personal experience the police generally won't bother investigating anything unless it has the potential to make the front page of a newspaper. Which it did this time, but not for the reasons that they would have liked.)

I do not respond well to being imposed upon, whether it's by organisations appropriating public space for their own purposes, or to "officials" abusing their power, which led to a somewhat acerbic original commentary and to me being in a somewhat peevish state of mind on the day in question.

Consequently on this occasion I wasn't even discreet, I just stood there blatantly shooting photos of the construction of the marquees. I was quite open to one of the security 'droids coming over and demanding to know what I was doing because at that point I had several pieces of mind to be liberally distributed to anyone who wanted to impose their "authoratah" over me. Especially this place. Even more especially if it was a Queensland copper moonlighting at this place.

Still, I liked this one of the guys straining to raise the canopy, so it wasn't all bad.