June 25th 2026 Who does that? Who does that? A sniper shoots a baby in the head while the baby is breastfeeding. Who does that? What kind of human could do that? For what reason? Not only that, but what kind of military not only doesn’t charge this soldier with murder, but they actively encourage this kind of behaviour to be repeated again and again. Over 21,000 dead children. Yet my government continue to insist that the ‘terrorists’ are someone else. The tide has turned. With the elections...
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June 24th 2026 For the love of business For the love of business Do you love your business? Your work? Your life? At the heart of all that we do is love. Without love, anything we do in the world is transactional, sterile, disconnected, soulless. Life without love is a life starved. Without love, a business has no light, no attraction. Nothing about it invites participation. Love enables us to nourish our business in the hard times, to stay the course when staff are behaving badly, to seek...
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June 23rd 2026 Real Currency Real Currency If you are reading this, then you have a level of privilege others do not. At the least; You can read. You have access to the internet. You are probably educated. Because these things are normalised in our society, we discount them. Yet there are others in the world who do not have similar access through no fault of their own. Do we care? The heart of business is about value. Here is something of value. I offer this in exchange for that. However,...
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June 22nd 2026 The gift of mature love The gift of mature love At some point, we realise that our demise is closer to us than our birth. While we spend the time of our lives before this moment thinking forever, endless, eternal, a beautiul naive state of existence that is wrapped in the hubris of youth, after this moment we sober to the inevitable endpoint. I met my love in my 58th year, after more than a decade of singleness and celibacy. At the beginning of our relationship, I was gripped...
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June 19th 2026 Our saboteur demands greatness from us Our saboteur demands greatness from us Get to know your saboteur. We all have one. That part of us that throws a shoe into the gear mechanism of our life. I have a friend who simply must have high drama around her. The drama carries the theme of legal battles. She lurches from one legal battle to another, major and minor. Another friend manages to draw the attention of the police. He is a trouble magnet. Even when he is not doing anything...
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June 18th 2026 An independent fourth estate An independent fourth estate Once upon a time Journalists asked blistering questions of politicians and CEO’s – never allowing a single opportunity to pass without some form of journalistic interrogation. No more. The mainstream media have been sold to the very class that profits from the people who dictate policy. They want the rot to be left unchallenged. Because it enriches them. So here we are. We have Australia’s equivalent of Trump/Farage...
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June 17th 2026 Go Play Go play Long-term readers will know I have been learning to surf. I will never not be learning to surf – as in I will never reach a destination of ‘surfer.’ It has been humbling, frustrating, joyous, terrifying, fun and challenging. Sometimes all of those emotions are experienced in one surf. I have been in a little slump. The surf has been tricky. My confidence has dropped dramatically. Oftentimes, naivete is so liberating because we have less fear. I need a reset....
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June 16th 2026 Sometimes it is out of integrity to scale Sometimes it is out of integrity to scale Our current world propagates scarcity as a currency. Our economy depends on scarcity to survive in its current form. The marketers of the world thrive on scarcity…only 100 places, get in now before the price goes up…this offer will never be repeated… Our addiction to consumption is driven by scarcity. We wake up at night with fears of loss, lack, and other forms of scarcity. When someone acts...
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June 15th 2026 Assimilation, synergy and refugees Assimilation, synergy and refugees From the Australian football team winning their first match against Turkiye, against the odds and against Turkiye’s expectation that they were the superior team, with many players on big salaries in European football. The Aussie team comprised 15 cultural and ethnic backgrounds, 8 of them born overseas, some in refugee camps. No big Euro players. But what a team. And on this day, the leader of our hate...
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