If you take the time to read it, and think about it, and act on it, and share it, we can make the world a little bit better. Because little changes to our behaviour can make a big difference to an autistic person, who can’t change. I developed a public education...
So said Simon Sinek in his famous TED Talk (48 million views and counting). Sinek was talking about leadership. But he could just as well have been talking about government and how it communicates. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 is where interpretation comes in. Interpretation is:-...
When 59% of Australians access social media daily, we’d be mad to think that Town Hall meetings are the only way to engage.Where I live, the state government has set up an online platform–Engage Victoria–to give Victorians a voice. There are currently more than...
Earlier this week I wrote that government communication is often a one-way, one-dimensional broadcast. I described it as being too much ‘above the line’ and someone asked me what I meant. Above-The-Line stems, I believe*, from the 1950s when...
It’s more than a personal political clusterf***… although there is plenty of that. In this article I explore how governments are:- not equipped to communicate effectively;- not equipped to target their efforts; and – not equipped to move rapidly....
