Tag: Leadership
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How 2 (School) Sport

Sports programs in NSW primary schools with less than 150 students face unique challenges such as: limited resources and a lack of specialist sports staff. For Indigenous students, in particular, team sports participation can provide additional benefits that are particularly important for their well-being and success in school. If your child is at a small…
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Faux Pas: Telling Leaders What They Want to Hear
In our first meeting, one of my clients said straight faced and unapologetically, ‘We’re map and chart people. We like to know where we are and where we are going.” Given his military career, I actually found this more a reminder re: what my approach with said client should be rather than any clear indicator…
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NSW and the ‘Let It Rip’ Leadership

Just over two months later, on 15 December 2021 – mere hours after the Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced ‘…vaccines alone will not get any country out of this crisis’- the newly-minted NSW Premier and insolvency tax lawyer, Dominic Perrottet eliminated the mandate on hotel quarantine, reduced the number…
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Women of Merit
Last week, Australian media was saturated with discussion of Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s new cabinet. Statistical comparisons with cabinets from New Zealand to Africa to Afghanistan were a plenty. Discussions centring around how poorly Australia sits from a representation of women in politics, point of view. While the Iraqi and Afghani comparison’s were a stretch…
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Gender, Sexuality and Security
A friend recently commented how nervous he became, anytime ‘The Feminists’ got started in a class discussion. Having had the recent privilege of sitting in a three hour seminar about Gender, Sexuality and Security, led by Dr Adam Kamradt-Scott and featuring guest lecturer Dr Megan MacKenzie, of the Government and International Relations Department at the University…

