Like Oscar Wilde’s demand that ‘the man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one’ – people like me who are constantly speaking of the benefits of globalisation should be compelled to travel on planes and do some of our Australian work overseas. In my role as adviser to companies that inhabit the world between business and government, I head over to Washington DC to work with my global colleagues on some clients operating in both the United States and Australian political jurisdictions.