Gun Violence Should Never Be Trivialised

Note: I’ve had this drafted (with only minor modification) since late 2024 intending to release it in gun violence awareness month. However recent events have prompted me to bring forward its release, especially because the Queensland Government is not going to participate in the gun buyback. I was raised on a farm in North Queensland,Continue reading “Gun Violence Should Never Be Trivialised”

Australia’s Productivity Roundtable: Putting health and wellbeing first

All employers are in the extraction business, not just those in the ‘resources’ industry. The resource all employers mine is their people  – specifically their ideas, energy and time – ‘just’ the most personal and precious of our resources which define us as human beings. Some workplaces have a culture where this mining is doneContinue reading “Australia’s Productivity Roundtable: Putting health and wellbeing first”

The Great Reset at Work: An update on connections impacted by toxic workplaces

Three years on from writing “The Great Reset at Work“, readers will be saddened and shocked to learn the progress or fate of my connections that I mentioned therein, because my greatest concerns did not take long to manifest and in the most tragic ways. I fear that the threat to their psychological safety thatContinue reading “The Great Reset at Work: An update on connections impacted by toxic workplaces”