Tas In Tassie – The Apple Isle proves Bitter-Sweet

Was Apple-Isle bound to check out the #artsmarty scene in Tasmania today.  This included a visit to Hobart’s controversial Museum of Old and New Art, MONA.    I spent some time capturing stills of MONA’s interior and exterior landscape. In...

Hurdles & Highlights

Today I gave a keynote presentation to a student conference for the course for ‘Working & Managing in International Contexts’ as part of the Bachelor of Arts International Studies, RMIT.  I spoke to a cohort of switched on students about my...

Desmond Tutu Reconciliation Award 2016

Delighted to attend the Desmond Tutu Reconciliation Fellowship award ceremony held at the Melbourne Town Hall. The award was presented by Dame Quentin Bryce to June Oscar for her tireless work within the Australian indigenous communities in the Kimberleys. Much of her...

Toot Toot: A train wreck on the Campaign trail for 2016

Excerpts from my piece on the election scorecard, via Crikey: “In an appalling show of wedge politics writ large, the equating of ‘illiterate and innumerate’ refugees with stealing Australian jobs (yet who languish on welfare?) was pronounced by Dutton, then...

Transforming Leaders through the ‘Other’ Lens

A pleasure to present with Karen Jackson today at the Department of Justice training session on ‘ Transformational Leadership’. Along with Mary Crooks from the Victorian Women’s Trust, we covered the white saviour complex, cultural hegemony of male...