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* This research is based on the authors' deep involvement in the process reported here, and backed by a large file of emails documenting each step (as well as the disputes). The narrative below would suffer if each individual item were referenced. AbstractEarly in 2012 the Rural Property Addressing Project in South Australia announced that it had substantially met its outcomes, and that the whole of the project was soon to be completed.In 2003, one of the recommendations to Cabinet from the South Australian Premier's Bushfire Summit was to endorse the development of a standard property addressing system for rural properties across the State. This was formally endorsed by Cabinet, and was a direct response to the fact that essential services such as ambulance, medical and social care were hindered in providing services to the residents of Eyre Peninsula during and after the bushfires.Overall, this was not a controversial decision, nor was it a huge implementation challenge, yet it took 9 years to come into effect. This is a classic case of the tyranny of small decisions. This paper outlines some of the implementation challenges faced by this apparently simple project, and provides some thoughts for implementation challenges of the future. The take away message is that if something so comparatively simple was made so complex, how can we adapt our public services to the cross cutting challenges of the future.

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary and repetitive movements known as tics. A retrospective analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans from 39 children and adolescents with TS was performed and subsequently compared with MRI scans from 834 neurotypical controls. The purpose of this study was to identify any differences in the regions of motor circuitry in TS to further our understanding of their disturbances in motor control (i.e., motor tics). Measures of volume, cortical thickness, surface area, and surface curvature for specific motor regions were derived from each MRI scan. The results revealed increased surface curvature in the opercular part of the inferior frontal gyrus and the triangular part of the inferior frontal gyrus in the TS group compared with the neurotypical control group. These novel findings offer some of the first evidence for surface curvature differences in motor circuitry regions in TS, which may be associated with known motor and vocal tics.