In an unusual move, the Senate will resume, as scheduled, today and sit until late tomorrow afternoon, when the writs will have been issued for the October the 9th poll.
That will allow the Opposition parties to re-form the Senate inquiry into the children overboard affair.
This is heartening. It will never bring back the dead, the damaged or the drowned, or compensate us for the Howard years that followed, but it will go towards helping me to heal.