On mental illness

On mental illness

by | Aug 6, 2014 | Commentary | 15 comments

This week I found myself involved in a very robust conversation on Facebook about mental illness. It began when an online friend shared a quote from Grant Cardone, a motivational speaker specialising in sales and business, which concluded: “by definition...

Start Caring

by | Sep 8, 2012 | Blog, Commentary

I’m not the first to say this and I won’t be the last – the world is going to hell. There’s been a major shift in the collective attitude that means we are all completely obsessed with ourselves, more than ever before.  All we seem to care...

Trolls

by | Sep 8, 2012 | Blog, Commentary

Australian media is all a-flutter this week on the issue of trolling, following reports of the hospitalisation of model and TV personality Charlotte Dawson after sustained attacks on her Twitter page, where (mostly anonymous) Twits told her, among other things, to go...