The Oz Jeff Banks

21/05/2026

HOW DID WE GET HERE - Foreword

In the end, this is a book about awareness. About noticing what has been normalised, about questioning what has been accepted, and about recognising that the path from where we were to where we are is rarely accidental. It is built, step by step, often quietly, often without scrutiny. The invitation extended here is simple. Read with an open mind. Allow the observations to sit, even if they do not immediately align with your own. And in those moments where something feels uncomfortably accurate, resist the urge to move past it too quickly.

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20/05/2026

DOING MY BIT Chapter 11 - Me On My High Horse

"What remains now is not a question of whether it was worthwhile, because that answer is embedded in the outcomes that were achieved and the lives that were influenced. The question that persists is how such a model can continue without eroding the very capacity that allows it to exist."

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Doing My Bit is a story about being thrust into service without a safety net

19/05/2026

DOING MY BIT Chapter 10 - The Accountant Dilemma

"At what point does the accumulation of what has already been given hold its own weight, standing as evidence that the intent to serve has never been absent? And why, in this particular arena, does that history seem to dissolve so easily, replaced by a fresh expectation that begins again at zero, as though the past carries no currency here?"

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Doing My Bit is a story about being thrust into service without a safety net

18/05/2026

DOING MY BIT Chapter 9 - Sandbar Golf Club

"So the question sharpens, no longer abstract but immediate and uncomfortably precise. How do you remove yourself from something you helped shape, knowing that its very reliability has allowed others to arrive each week with the expectation that everything will be ready, that the responsibility sits elsewhere, that the game simply exists for them to play?"

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Doing My Bit is a story about being thrust into service without a safety net

17/05/2026

DOING MY BIT Chapter 8 - School Councils Need a President

"Taking on positions such as School Council President was never about status or recognition. It was an extension of that investment, a way of participating in the broader framework that supports not just one child, but many. The work itself may have seemed modest in isolation, a meeting here, a decision there, but collectively it formed part of a larger effort to ensure that the system, imperfect as it may be, continued to serve those moving through it."

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Doing My Bit is a story about being thrust into service without a safety net

16/05/2026

DOING MY BIT Chapter 7 - An SUCC Captain

"The structures of the Club operate with their own logic, one that balances individual moments against collective progression. Decisions made within that framework rarely account for the full human impact they carry in their wake. The conflict, then, is not between right and wrong, but between competing versions of right."

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Doing My Bit is a story about being thrust into service without a safety net

15/05/2026

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15/05/2026

DOING MY BIT Chapter 6 - Sydney University Cricket Club - The Treasurer

"The words that accompany the announcement speak to service, to commitment, to impact. They are genuine, and they are received as such. Yet there is an awareness that they sit alongside, rather than in place of, what might have been."

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14/05/2026

DOING MY BIT Chapter 5 - PBL - Finding Community

"Effort is not lacking. The committee continues to engage, to strategise, to attempt to reposition what is slipping away. But effort alone does not guarantee outcome, and the distinction between persistence and resistance begins to blur."

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13/05/2026

DOING MY BIT Chapter 4 - BNI - A Search for Closed Business

"The realisation does not arrive with any sense of drama. It is quieter than that, more of an accumulation than a moment. A point where the balance no longer feels sustainable, where the ongoing justification begins to lose its strength. The language of giving no longer fully explains the experience, and the sense of extraction, once subtle, becomes harder to ignore."

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Doing My Bit is a story about being thrust into service without a safety net

13/05/2026

DOING MY BIT Chapter 3 - Being Prepared - A Scouting Experience

"And so the role expands, not through intention, but through necessity, until the original shape of it is barely recognisable beneath the layers that have been added in the absence of anyone else willing to take them on."

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Doing My Bit is a story about being thrust into service without a safety net