Category: Insights

  • It’s that time of year when you start reflecting on what the hell happened to the last year.  Usually it’s about our relationships, the people we love or loved, the people we found and those that we lost.  The stupid arguments, the times we should have said we are sorry, the regrets in acting like…

  • The road to recovery from painful experiences can be very long and difficult.  Last Friday I visited a colleague who has been on long term leave looking after her husband who died of cancer recently.  I really don’t know how I’d go losing someone so close to me, caring for them for many months and…

  • My experience in NSW Court last Friday (as a key witness / participant) made me think back to my time earlier in the year as a jury member in a Melbourne Criminal proceeding and the entire justice system. For background I was called up for a criminal court proceeding which I had postponed from the April…

  • One of my colleagues Ian Bartlett lost a substantial part of his family on Saturday.   His brother, sister-in-law and one of his nieces died in the fires on Saturday 7 February 2009.   12 year old Madison Bartlett survived with substantial burns to her body.    My former team is collecting money and goods…

  • Well last week the organisation I work for (accidentally) released the new returns I was project leading early (by about 1 week). Now the hard part, dealing with the public and any issues they have (or our staff).   The returns themselves are radically different and introduce a lot of new concepts and rules and instructions.…