by Samantha Cotgrave | Jun 26, 2020 | Interchange Bench, The Slade Report
If we don’t see ourselves as Professional Services Consultants, then why should our clients? I finished my tertiary study as an Economics Graduate with many options for a career, yet can’t imagine any other role could have given me the sense of purpose and...
by Samantha Cotgrave | Apr 22, 2020 | Interchange Bench
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 | Interchange Bench
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 were...
by Samantha Cotgrave | Apr 7, 2020 | Interchange Bench
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 join that conversation. Unable to,...
by Catherine DeVrye | Mar 31, 2020 | The Slade Report
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...