(2020) An Interview with Gareth Stewart
Interview on 24 June 2020 with Gareth Stewart, Marketing & Communications Director at that week’s Willow Technology Corporation staff meeting.
(2020) A Challenge to Empty Minds: Obituary to Owen Harries
Owen Harries (1930-2020), foreign policy adviser, thinker, gadfly, editor, and advocate of the “national interest” realist tradition, died last week. His influence was profound in Australia and globally. He persuaded, stung, prodded those around him to think.
(2020) The 10 Habits of Highly Effective Networkers
These are my powerpoint notes to an EG staff presentation in March 2020. Next time, I’ll do better.
(2020) Yes. We Should Download the Covid 19 App.
This debate is about doing good in our lives. About caring for others and getting ready for the next wave of Covid-19 infections. The app is voluntary, the information collected is not owned by the government, there is no policing, there are many protections.
(Various) A Montage of Photos
Mary, Isabella Burke, Michael, Louise Burke (née Easson), and Amanda Howard (née Easson), 14 February 2020 in the Botantical Gardens, on the park bench named in honour of Afif Gabriel Geha and Margaret June “Betty” Mariani, formerly Easson.
(2020) Peter James Easson (1926-2020)
Our father, who art in heaven, was a complex man – humble, intelligent, self-deprecating (we all got our humour – the Easson wit – from him), proud of his Celtic blood (frugal, sentimental, fiery, brave.)
(2020) Burke and Australian Labor
This essay suggests that Burkean ideas apply to the Australian labour tradition7 and help illuminate that tradition as well as enabling the explication of competing ideas that sit outside, sometimes in competition and sometimes as complementary.
(2020) Three Decisions in Twenty-Five Years in Canberra
In 25 years, as an independent Director of various ACT government corporations in energy, water, and urban planning, I participated in decisions that continue to shape the future of Canberra.
(2020) Mundey’s Legacy
John Bernard “Jack” Mundey (1929-2000), conservationist, union leader, activist, was an unlikely hero. This article briefly summarises his life, achievements and, finally, reflects on lessons from a life that endured more disappointments than triumphs.
(2020) Property Down Under at a Time of COVID
Q&A for the July/August 2020 Special Australia Section of the Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific (IREAP) journal. Written in late May 2020 in the expectation that excerpts would be published.