What is What future career would you bet on? With school starting back around Australia, it's a perfect time to ask ourselves the perennial question of which careers and future are we preparing our kids for? As a baby boomer, my world of education asked me at the end of my final year of high [...]
Looking at 2014 through sunshine
Queensland’s Gold Coast makes everything looker brighter and that’s even true of chatting about my 2014’s major trends with Nicole Dyer at ABC Gold Coast radio. In our regular catch up Nicole and I chatted about the year ahead, about the growing phenomena of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing; about new food trends including frekah; peek a […]
The future of workplace drug testing
What is The future of workplace drug testing? This morning's newspapers carried another story about workplace drug testing and the invasion of privacy some workers feel from it, this led to a whole lot of talk-back on Geoff Hutchinsons Breakfast program on ABC Local Perth radio, which led to a call to me to discuss [...]
Welcome back to 2014
What is Welcome back to 2014? 2014 will see Australia's population increase by one (1) new person every 1 minute and 18 seconds, adding 364,997 more Aussie's than we started the year with to end up with a total of 23,701,331 Aussies. We will have three (3) Australian state elections one in South Australia in [...]
Calm down and get real
What is Calm down and get real? 2014 will be a year of great change - psychologically, emotionally, technologically and pretty much for all of the other ology's. Alright we get it. The worlds had it tough. Things will take a while to build towards a new normal, which will for the first time have [...]
Fast Forward through 2014
What is Fast Forward through 2014? The new economic normal, 3 Australian state elections, peek a boo panels in women's fashion, 364,997 new Australians added to our population and super-foods freekah and teff were just some of the 2014 trends I chatted about with Kate O'Toole of ABC Local radio national in our loo.How does [...]