by Jason Molyneux | May 6, 2020 | Interchange Bench, The world @work
Standing at a sheer 1986 metres tall and casting a shadow over the Alpine National Park, Mt Bogong (the local Aboriginal name for the mountain roughly translates to The Big Fella) holds the rugged crown of the highest mountain in Victoria, Australia. Mt Bogong...
by Samantha Cotgrave | Apr 22, 2020 | Interchange Bench, The world @work
My grandfather was a Digger – a Navigator for the RAAF in WW2 in New Guinea and the Coral Sea. He saw the best and worst in men, fighting on both sides. He rarely spoke of it, but when I was nine years old, he took our whole family on a trip, by boat, to deepen our...
by Anita Ziemer | Apr 16, 2020 | The world @work
I had never understood face mask wearing in public. To me, face masks indicated a cultural misunderstanding, a weird convention I couldn’t grasp. Were the wearers suggesting our pollution levels were up there with Shanghai’s, were we particularly foul mouthed, or...
by Anita Ziemer | Apr 14, 2020 | The world @work
Don’t it always seem to goThat you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s goneThey paved paradiseAnd put up a parking lot. Thanks Joni Mitchell I’m grateful this week. Enormously grateful to our Federal Government for the recently legislated JobKeeper initiative....
by Samantha Cotgrave | Apr 7, 2020 | Interchange Bench, The world @work
It was while waiting to cross at the lights on Spring Street last week, standing (suitably) apart from a couple on my walk home, when I overheard one say, “Things will really get bad when Bunnings closes.” I wanted to step closer and...
by Catherine DeVrye | Mar 31, 2020 | The world @work
Yes, we indeed live in unprecedented times – but haven’t there always been unprecedented times in human history? There is no room for corona complacency during this current medical and economic crisis. Yet, in spite of cancelled travel, cancelled conferences and...
