Victorian Labor Government Small Business Grants
Digital Adaptation – Small Business Grants The Digital Adaptation Small Business Grants are still open, applications close on 2 June 2022. The program offers up to $1200 to small businesses to pay for a range of approved products for their business, products are wide ranging from e-commerce to accounting software. We encourage you to explore […]
Have we achieved equal pay and leadership opportunities in the workforce? New Reports Suggest Otherwise.
It was my first year of teaching in a Victorian country school of some 300 students. At the first staff meeting I attended (all aquiver with enthusiasm and nervousness) the issue that concerned the school principal wasn’t school inductions or literacy rates but the mess in the staff room. Why were there dirty cups in […]
Appropriate Workplace Conduct – Access Australia Group Presentation
On 9 February 2022, I had the absolute pleasure of being invited to attend Access Australia Group’s Staff Development Day and presenting to over 200 employees on Appropriate Workplace Conduct, including updates to sexual harassment laws. I would like to thank Liz March and everyone at AAG for their warm welcome and positive response. If […]
Love Your Local
The City of Greater Bendigo has launched a festive radio and social media campaign to encourage people to Love Your Local. Shopping locally or visiting local businesses online is one of the simplest and yet effective ways to help our businesses to keep trading and retain vital jobs in our community for the future. You […]
Radio National’s Fran Kelly retires and the Australian’s Gerard Henderson is ungracious
Travelling from Bendigo to Melbourne along the Calder on a regular basis, I am grateful for the news, information, entertainment and podcasts that are offered to me by ABC radio. There is nothing like being absorbed in an interview with an author or historian or musician to make the kilometres speed by. And if tiredness […]
Workplace behaviour should be a bit better than the jungle
That rudeness in the workplace has a detrimental effect on employees goes without saying. Studies on workplace management consistently indicate that rudeness can turn the victim into a helpless wreck. According to a 2019 Harvard Business Review report people who experience workplace rudeness suffer from mental and physical health problems, and are more likely to […]
Workplace conflict
From time to time all workplaces find themselves having to deal with conflict or disagreements in the workplace. This can occur at all levels within the business and can stem from a number of issues that can include: Interpersonal clashes Poor communication Workloads Unfair or unclear expectations Lack of common performance standards. Conflict can start […]
Why we vote
Too often we hear the phrase “all politicians are the same”. This platitude is the common response of war weary constituents who are sick of the palaver of lies and deceit that is often uncovered when politicians on both sides of the aisle make decisions based on expediency, rather than the greater good of the […]
When he came home
My book at last out in the world as we open up. Dianne Dempsey When He Came Home, the book I have been working on for the past couple of years was released in August and while I was very pleased to see it in print, COVID meant that several book events and promotions had […]
The Old Courthouse
There is a Thomas Hardy short story, On the Western Circuit, which concerns a barrister, a Lincoln’s-Inn man, whose love life is played out against the background of the Western Circuit, one of the six geographical circuits that make up the Bar of England and Wales. For centuries the legal system has brought justice to […]