Misspent youth. Everyone has one, right? In some way. I spent my misspent youth studying. That’s right, the old head-in-the-books problem. Surrounded by ideas. I was very idealistic. My university got me out to do an exchange to Italy, but it didn’t last long. I was back studying before they…
Last month beef farmer Glenn Morris, saddled up and went for a jaunt across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, as bemused tourists and (no doubt furious) motorists looked on. He was riding to protest vegetation laws being mooted by both state and federal governments, concerned that changes would make it too…
If you don’t apologise and admit you were wrong, you’ve taken the wrong exit and before long your PR strategy will have gone too far south. We’ve gone well past the point where writing about the Essendon Football Club’s supplement scandal is like dancing about architecture. Really awful architecture that…
Africa is a rich source of wisdom about humanity and as it turns out, stakeholder engagement. It was South African Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu who popularised the ancient African word, Ubuntu. The word means ‘humanity to others’ or putting it another way, ‘I am what I am because of who…
The headline read: A simple greenwash detection tip: check what the firm puts on its home page Are you serious? How can words on the web serve as a reliable guide to a company’s action on sustainability? As a science communicator who specialises in corporate sustainability, I make part of…
A few weeks ago I was invited to attend – and sponsor – a women in agriculture event. I didn’t need time to think about it.
I declined. Almost immediately my phone rang: “Isn’t your business all about agri-food? That’s the third year running you’ve declined? Why?”
People are connected to each other like never before. A stark reminder for me last week came in the form of real-time email conversations with colleagues in Melbourne during a flight between Los Angeles and Seattle – 30,000 feet above the United States. My destination was Seattle, the venue for…
Recently I had the doubtful pleasure of attending a “consultation” session hosted by a government department (Which Shall Remain Nameless – let’s call it DWSRN) for a new program. As someone who believes in the principles of consultation and has witnessed the power of it, I feel quite scarred by…
“Everyone. There’s no specific demographic. Ann Druyan, the writer of the show [and wife of the late Carl Sagan], succinctly noted: anyone with a beating heart. The cosmos is not for one demographic. It’s for everyone. It belongs to everyone.” Neil deGrasse Tyson on the ‘target audience’ for Cosmos Thirty…
The continent of Africa is a rich source of wisdom about humanity. This I learnt on a visit to South Africa – a country with a diverse and historic mosaic of voices, culture and peoples – for a meeting of the Public Relations Global Network (PRGN) in April 2012. Our…
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