I feel as if I am writing the Diary this week, as I recount the ups and downs of my appointment to the committee to recommend members of the boards of the ABC and SBS. My first disappointment was being described in the Australian as a Liberal party ‘heavyweight’. Heavyweight? So, I thought, this is what it has come to: all those days in the gym looking silly, all that money spent on designer mineral water and celery sticks and rejecting the sticky date pudding, only to be branded as a heavyweight.