One of the blog’s best friends died just over a year ago. Don’s family kindly agreed to the blog writing an obituary, with their assistance, which was published in The Age year. As a commemoration the blog republishes both the obituary and the eulogy the blog was honoured to be able to deliver at Don’s funeral service.
Writers Victoria 2015 Annual Report Patron’s Introduction
It has been some decades since the arts community was last under such pressure from government cutbacks; ideological attacks; and attempts to undermine peer-reviewed assessments of funding needs.
This puts pressure on both large and small arts organisations and for many their survival is at risk. Writers’ Victoria is not immune from these pressures. But what is remarkable is the resilience it has shown; the fact that it now has the largest membership in the organisation’s history; and, that it is experiencing – and meeting – strong and growing demand for its services and courses.
RMIT PR Program 25th anniversary prize-giving 2014
A few weeks ago I was at the PRIA Conference in Adelaide to attend the annual Fellows Dinner
I was sitting opposite someone who has been in the industry for about as long as me – which incidentally is about 20 years more than the RMIT program has been in existence. Like a few of the older members of the industry who seem to think the past was better than the present he was bemoaning the quality of students coming into the industry and holding forth, while waving a glass of wine, on their shortcomings.
Abbott should have known better—the Brasillach affair
Tony Abbott is in no way a Robert Brasillach. But he is an intellectual, and that is the standard by which he should be judged.
A plain person’s guide to change management
While there has been much scholarly study of how change managers transform organisations, there has been no simple guide to what change managers do. This guide has been prepared to remedy that lack.
Commemorating Port’s industrial maritime heritage
A discussion paper prepared in May 2010 on behalf of local community groups.
Defining a new and better future for the VCA
A submission to the VCAM Review panel in February 2010.
Masterworks to warm a Melbourne winter
A look at the July Melbourne Winter Masterworks event, published in The Age in 2009.
Five hypotheses on an epistemology of public relations
A review of public relations education, published in the Asia-Pacific Public Relations Journal in 2003
Don Watson’s Recollections of a Bleeding Heart
A review of Don Watson's Recollections of a Bleeding Heart, published in the Courier-Mail in 2002.