There are 20-something world leaders converging on Sydney this week for the APEC conference. But if you watch the nightly news here, there is only one that they care about - the idiot. The idiot lands, the idiot has dinner, the idiot takes a boat trip, you get the picture.

The CBD in Sydney is almost closed down due to security considerations, and last night they shut down the Sydney Harbor bridge for an hour so that the idiot could travel across it. This almost caused an international incident, as this bridge is quite important to the daily commute.

In fact downtown Sydney is almost a ghost town this week (except for SWAT teams and US Secret Service agents), as anybody who has a real life has escaped to the suburbs so that they can carry on.